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Damn....there's just no winning with a Jedi. On a lighter side.....imagine being an actor with a "little extra padding" and landing the role of "Porkins"....what are the odds?

Not true. He was also a Lt. for the Gotham Police department in the late 80s when Mr. Mom put on a Bat suit "Hey Eckhardt! Think about the future!"

TI 99/4A here...went to the C128 after that.

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No....I work with Porkins. I would get in trouble for posting a pic of him....but he is a spot on dead ringer for Porkins. I mean dead on....same face, same thin nasty looking beard. I swear if I did not see Porkins on the big screen 30 years ago, it was the same guy We even call him Red Six.

Have a funny April 1st!

Nice. the Dambusters finally traded in their baby bugs, huh? I have a couple projects in the pipe currently, but I can add this to the list.

Battletech uses "Z-scale"....about 1:285th. Pretty close to Micro Armor stuff. In fact, I use GHQ micro armor for tanks and infantry and stuff in our games. We have a 4 foot by 6 foot board that gets stacked against the wall when games aren't under way and we have held some pretty large scale battles on there and never run out of room. BTW....I hear your gripes about PDF....they are a hassle. Luckily I have access to a decent printer that does double sided printing so it isn't a huge factor. If you are interested in checking out Battletech again and want to play a few games but don't have the new books or players or whatever....check out Mega Mek. It's a cool Java based version of Battletech....has all the updated rules and most of the new mechs. The cool thing is you can create your own mechs in Solaris Skunk Works and import them in Mega Mek. Definitely worth a look

I got something even better than that...... Miniatures!

Nice! Never played Rifts, but played the Robotech and TMNT RPGs quite a bit. The big rage among game publishers is PDFs now. Many of the publishers offer their books in PDF format at a reduced price. I purchased Total Warfare in PDF form and used my printer at work to double side print and put it in a binder for easy reference during games. Saved more than half the cost of buying a hard copy of the book

There is no Aerotech anymore, it's all been integrated into one book. Check out Classic Battletech - Total Warfare....that will give you everything you need to play...mechs, infantry, aerospace, vehicles...the whole sha-bang. Then look into Tactical Operations and Strategic Operations. TactOps gives you advanced rules like environmental and atmospheric conditions....stuff like wind, rain, low viz and gravity and stuff, advanced weaponry like retractable blades, etc. The StratOps gives you even more advanced rules for stuff like drop ships, and capital ships, mech salvaging and includes Battleforce rules. They just recently released "A Time of War", which is the updated RPG....basically like Mechwarrior 4th Edition

Nope....there was never a stoppage of releases. The licenses were bought by a company called Wizkids and they continuted to release source books and also created the Dark Age/Age of Destruction miniature game. Then Catalyst bought the rights and have been putting out new stuff ever since. They are just releasing a new intro box set and word is they are bringing back LAMs

They balanced the clans quite a bit now. Clan weapons are more powerful, but their mechs are typically less armored. Any decent Inner Sphere player can wipe a clan player off the map with sound tactics.

That's why I have it on the PS3....no hardware issues

Hey all, are there any big mouth Vipers out there for SF2? All I can find are NSI equipped A's....would REALLY love to fly a modern CJ

No reason for FASA to be resurrected from the grave. A company called Catalyst Games took over the Battletech and Shadowrun lines.

Got back into table top war gaming and got hooked on Battletech. Any other players in CA land? (Note....talking about the table top game..NOT the PC games)

Chuck Norris wipes his back side with Charlie Sheen ~WINNING!~

There will be.......hint cough hint hint