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BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

The year is 3025, and the ramp up to the 4th Succession War is in full swing. Great houses are getting into increasingly long border skirmishes, pirate activity is on the rise, and its a profitable time to be a mercenary.

Enter one such mercenary band. A minor company operating out of the heart of the Inner Sphere named Marley's Misfits. Made up of whatever pilots, crew and tech could be scaped together, operating whatever BattleMechs and vehicles they can get their hands on, the rising tension is being seen by their commander, one Marley Swanson, as their time to make enough cash and a name for themselves to hit the big leagues.

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Welcome one and all to our little dive into the wonderful world of the BattleTech and MechWarrior universe! Now, normally this is where I'd put the rules and junk, but I trust y'all to behave. We're adults here. Biggest thing is I'm not intending for us to touch on pretty much anything more morally gray or dubious beyond "we're being paid to fight in someone else's war." So do keep that in mind.

As for technology, I'm not limiting us to mechs in any capacity. You wanna play a tank commander? Go ahead. An aerospace fighter jockey? Consider it done. A VTOL pilot? Absolutely. Heck, I'm even on board if you wanna play a marine/security commander and lead the poor bloody infantry. Biggest thing for technology is that anything that was available in 3025, and not strictly limited or controlled by one Great House or other faction, is allowed in its standard configuration. If you wanna rip something out to make a more customized mech, there'll need to be some tradeoffs.

If anyone has any questions, just yell at me. The wiki https://www.sarna.net/wiki/ is a fantastic resource for pretty much anything you could need for the setting, and I've set up a discord here (https://discord.gg/5Nuv2DqtFQ) so we have a more real-time place to talk and plan and chatter and whatnot.

Anyway here's a CS template and an Asset template:

Character Sheet

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Nickname/Callsign:[/b] (if any)
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]

[b]Crew Position:[/b]

[b]Nationality:[/b](Either one of the Great House states or a Periphery state/generic Periphery location)
[b]Biographical History:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

Asset Sheet

[b]Asset Name:[/b]
[b]Asset Nickname:[/b] (if any)

[b]Asset Type:[/b]
[b]Asset Tonnage:[/b]

[b]Asset Crew/Staff:[/b] (if any)

[b]Asset Weaponry:[/b]

[b]Asset Equipment:[/b] (if any)

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@AndyC My plan is roughly somewhere between. Pretty much if a Mech, 'Vee, ASF, or VTOL existed in 3025(minus House-exclusive designs like the Raven), its on the table in its Standard configuration, but if you want a custom variation, there'd need to be some tradeoff. Like if you wanted to, say, swap out the Large Laser on a mech with a PPC, I'd let you do it, but you'd need to drops some armor tonage, or heatsinks, or etc.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

Well, guess tomorrow will be spent cranking out an OOC thread for this thing given the amount of interest. So those interested can look forward to that.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Silverwind Blade As I said, I'm not intending on missions to be dumb stuff like "Go into this heavily populated area to just destroy buildings" or similar, won't even be a "We're rejecting this job because of the risk to civilians and non-combatants", those kinds of jobs just won't be mentioned. We'll be fighting combatants, and we won't be doing work for pirate organizations. I'm not intending on our role in missions to have any serious or dramatic consequences either beyond "And then the people we worked for put their flag over the planet." I want most of the focus to just be on a group of mercenaries plying their trade. The more morally dubious content of the setting beyond "We're playing people who get paid to fight in wars." isn't really stuff I have any interest in touching.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Letter Bee I understand, hopefully no hard feelings

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

@Letter BeeNot... particularly? Its a setting about war between a half dozen different nation states all varying shades of autocratic and the mercenaries caught up in the middle of it all. There's no guarantee a "morally right" mercenary job is actually that. Now I'm not going to be giving us missions about killing civilians or anything similar, but its a setting and game about war as a business, there's really no way to avoid everything morally questionable.

BattleTech: A Band of Misfits

The year is 3025, and the ramp up to the 4th Succession War is in full swing. Great houses are getting into increasingly long border skirmishes, pirate activity is on the rise, and its a profitable time to be a mercenary.

Enter one such mercenary band. A minor company operating out of the heart of the Inner Sphere named Marley's Misfits. Made up of whatever pilots, crew and tech could be scaped together, operating whatever BattleMechs and vehicles they can get their hands on, the rising tension is being seen by their commander, one Marley Swanson, as their time to make enough cash and a name for themselves to hit the big leagues.

So yeah, there's your pitch. I'm looking for anyone and everyone interested in driving a big stompy robot, a heavy metal tank, or a fast flying aircraft as we wheel and deal with the nations of the Inner Sphere and try to make a living.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

@MelodicElementI like it a lot. Every promotion needs the pompous rich boy heel, and bonus points for the bruiser bodyguard and a stable of jobbers. Feel free to throw his sheet over into the characters tab, and I'll add 'em to the roster.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

https://discord.gg/ZsuqGx4M8C

We have a discord, for those on board.

The GWA: Global Wrestling Association

@nodogs@Taka@Fabricant451@MelodicElement@Fiber@Hey Im Jordan@Sloth@Kiragan_Natsuki

The OOC is live!

Expect a discord link soonish somewhere in the OOC once I finish it up