Battletech: Land Air Mechs and Quadvees

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>>13739739
Star League LAMs

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>>13739749
Phoenix Hawk LAM MK-1

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>>13739755
Stinger LAM MK-1

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>>13739758
Wasp LAM MK-1

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>>13739763
Shadow Hawk LAM

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>>13739768
Scorpion LAM

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>>13739771
Champion LAM

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>>13739777
Screamer LAM

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Spectral LAMs

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>>13739788

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>>13739794
Waneta

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>>13739801
Pwwka

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>>13739807
Yurei

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Pre-Reseen LAM depictions

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Clan Hell Horses Quadvees.

Arion

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>>13739827
Cyllaros

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>>13739832

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>>13739837
Harpagos

Boreas

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>>13739841
Notos Omnimech Quadvee

>>13739843
>ONTOS CAN INTO LEGS NOW HAHAHA
>also clantech

Transforming mechs in battletech stick out like sore thumbs. They should have just stuck with the Destroid-esque mechs.

>>13739739
Those are some ugly valkyrie's OP.

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>>13739843

This is my favorite Battletech.

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Unseen LAMs.

Phoenix Hawk LAM

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>>13743933
Stinger LAM

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>>13743938
Wasp LAM

LAMS more like LAME amirite

>>13739771
s-scorpion-chan what are you doing?

what the fuck am i even looking at?

>>13744343
Retarded western mecha designers doing their damnedest to rip off the Japs.

>>13744566
>rip off Kawamori

>>13744343
Originally Battletech borrowed (licensed, whatever) designs from Dougram, Macross, Crusher Joe, etc to make their game. Destroids and such. Big stompy mechs, since Battletech is about big stompy mechs. And for some retarded reason, since they thought they had the rights to the VF's they threw those in there as well, and called them "wasps". Harmony Gold sued the shit out of them, and they lost all the rights to the mechs. So they made up a bunch of designs to replace them. Apparently they kept in transforming mechs, despite the fact they don't fit the setting. At all.

Too bad no one running Battletech can ever figure out what the fuck to do with LAMs, and half the fans are butthurt about them even existing.

>>13744674

Also go back to /tg/ with this western filth

>>13744678
I get the feeling you aren't really >>13744674

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>>13744343
Stolen designs.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/10/shoji-kawamori-the-creator-hollywood-copies-but-never-credits/#2715e4857a0b2a7dfa911683

>“Around this time I also heard about how some of my Macross designs were used in BattleTech. It seems that the company that held the rights to use only the packaging design of the plastic model broadly misinterpreted that. As they thought that anything on the packaging could be used elsewhere. So a lot of different designs appeared to have been replicated. Naturally, I didn’t approve of any of it and only found out about it third hand. It’s not something I can talk about openly, as this possibly became a court case.”

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I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to bring them back. No one liked them to begin with, and these designs did nothing for it.

>tfw the best LAM design is fanmade

WHEN'S INTERSTELLAR OPS

>>13744674
They are ridiculous strategic assets. A unit with the resilience of a battlemech, the speed of an aero fighter, and you don't have to land a dropper or perform any kind of upper-atmosphere bullshit or orbital insertions to get it on the ground. It can even screen for a dropper making planetfall, and it fits into both aero and battlemech bays.

The only problem with it is they included airmech mode, and expect it to be a competent fighter while in it.

If it was, like, a transitional mode that you could only go into while landing and taking off, and you took horrible crits if you got hit while in the mode, it would help define the LAM's strategic, uh, strategy. As-is, though, it's right fucked.

>>13750453
>resilience of a battlemech

Doesn't that just mean it eats shit to aerotech, though?

>>13750504
It can take a pass or two, with a bit of luck.

But it's not like the entire scenario isn't just as dangerous for the aero asset. Control rolls ain't no joke.

They all look disgusting.

I can see the effort in the redesigns, but the LAM concept in general sticks out from BT like a sore thumb. Most 'Mechs can barely tumble and come back up in under 5 seconds and there're these tri-mode fighters agile enough to use their air form and fast enough in their transformation to outstrip all other forms of ground-based versatility (obviously, otherwise no one would have ever produced LAMs).

A clankier, heavier, blockier, vulture droid-facsimile using the sheer power of thrust to enter atmosphere, bomb the shit out of people, and land to continue fucking shit up/be able to fly back up into space would be something that would fit the industrial trappings of most BT 'Mechs better.

>>13739739
>Stolen Designs General