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[TuRbOlAg]

I personally dont think it would be good in a normal match to have infantry because what if 6 guys with a massive credit of C-bills decided to go on an infantry attack as a squad for fun? Thats six mechs, six tanks, six aerospace pilots, or (more likely) any combination of them that would be gone.

HOWEVER i think it would be an excelent idea to add into later versions as a seperate game type where its 30 infantry men with a couple transports against 2 mechs in a smaller map, maybe a city or dense forest. I've always loved the idea of numerous weaklings fighting one or two big scary thingys, this would be a perfect setting for this. It would be cool all like you and 29 other guys running down a street like call of duty stuff and then a vulture or somethin walks around the corner and everyones all  . It would require teamwork, sneakyness, etc etc blah blah blah.

Just another idea

Epic gametype would be epic.  MW3 intro comes to mind, where the thor is walking through the city.  Insert bazooka infantry here.

[Stormin']

HOWEVER i think it would be an excelent idea to add into later versions as a seperate game type where its 30 infantry men with a couple transports against 2 mechs in a smaller map, maybe a city or dense forest. I've always loved the idea of numerous weaklings fighting one or two big scary thingys, this would be a perfect setting for this. It would be cool all like you and 29 other guys running down a street like call of duty stuff and then a vulture or somethin walks around the corner and everyones all  . It would require teamwork, sneakyness, etc etc blah blah blah.

...isn't that BF2142?

[Valaska]

umm . . in foot soldier mode you're gonna be stuck inside battle armor, usually nobody wold look either male or female in those, if i ain't mistaken O.o

 Correctus! The Elemental Battle Armor Suit has no external differences for men and women, but internal there are some diffies =].

[(TLL)Highlander]

HOWEVER i think it would be an excelent idea to add into later versions as a seperate game type where its 30 infantry men with a couple transports against 2 mechs in a smaller map, maybe a city or dense forest. I've always loved the idea of numerous weaklings fighting one or two big scary thingys, this would be a perfect setting for this. It would be cool all like you and 29 other guys running down a street like call of duty stuff and then a vulture or somethin walks around the corner and everyones all  . It would require teamwork, sneakyness, etc etc blah blah blah.

...isn't that BF2142?

Nahh BF2142 has pretty lame walkers. You could literally walk under one and shoot it in it's Mechballs with a rifle and kill it (mechballs=vents=weakspot) It would actually be dificult to kill a vulture or a REAL mech. The walkers are also maybe half the size of a mech and 1/8th the firepower, plus die in maybe 4-5 rockets which u can spawn with. Basically your average tank with legs and a bit more firepower

[Valaska]

 But the Walkers on BF2142 are pretty deadly, they are basically made to kill anything soft, anything hard, and anything flying with 2 people in it, plus if someone gets under yah you can literally tea bag them to death by crouching down lol. I liked the walkers on 2142, nothing compared to a battlemech but man would any military today kill for one of those lol.
 Or an ATAC from Killzone 2..

[Black_Yoshi]

Epic gametype would be epic.  MW3 intro comes to mind, where the Thor is walking through the city.  Insert bazooka infantry here.

All right, you're making me think of the intro scene from Terminator 2 (the second rocket guy on the truck was the only guy to do shit, bringing down an HK). Everyone else is just plain retarded during that fight.

HOWEVER I think it would be an excellent idea to add into later versions as a separate game type where its 30 infantry men with a couple transports against 2 Mechs in a smaller map, maybe a city or dense forest. I've always loved the idea of numerous weaklings fighting one or two big scary things, this would be a perfect setting for this. It would be cool all like you and 29 other guys running down a street like call of duty stuff and then a vulture or something walks around the corner and everyone's all . It would require teamwork, stealth, etc etc blah blah blah.

Pray that those two Mechs don't use massed machine guns. I would say if you're in an urban area... if the designers make spots higher than the Mechs, you can take them on with snipers or rockets. It's not worth it shooting from windows, all what the Mechs can do is just launch their LRMs to the windows and the splash damage may kill you. The forest... you get better cover if the suit's camouflaged. Also, if it's a no-radar session, there are multiple good opportunities to score headshots without any awareness. There is still the possibility of the trees being ignited or broken down, so the Mechs might do that (due to resource issues, that may not happen).

[Voldine]

Regarding the clans and races:

As I recall, the bloodname of any Clan mechwarrior is traced through the 'mother' so a trueborn of any race with the proper genetic mother would qualify for any given bloodname.

Freebirth scum, on the other hand....

[(TLL)Cowking]

Freebirth scum, on the other hand....

*Smiles* 


"Hey who you callin scum? Your mother was a tin-can!"


(Jkin love to roleplay...)

[Bazen]

what can be our pilot base model?

There could always be the use of the crysis suit, and just say it is a basic space suit.

[Valaska]

Regarding the clans and races:

As I recall, the bloodname of any Clan mechwarrior is traced through the 'mother' so a trueborn of any race with the proper genetic mother would qualify for any given bloodname.

Freebirth scum, on the other hand....

 Ummm.. Well they are traced, yes, and there's no mother for True Born warriors... Unless you consider their artificial womb they are born from as a mother lol. The 800 Blood Named warriors, the originals that is, are where the genetic lines come from, each True Born warrior is born of one of these main lines of genes, a long with multiple other warriors gene's that are used to create an amalgamation of DNA so as to avoid just one genetic line of warriors with no advantage over the previous one, it would basically make one warrior so once a clan figured how to counter one warrior they could kill them all as they all would react the same in each situation, thats why they mix max, even sometimes trade some genetic material to other Clans for certain things to mix up the gene pools.
 After the name is traced back it does NOT get given to the soldier, no matters what, not even Khan's of the Clans get given birth names, and there are some Khan's and SaKhan's, Galaxy Commanders etc that have NO blood name! They go through the Trial of Bloodright, there are currently only 760 surviving Blood Names in the clans, only 25 warriors can hold one of these at the same time, 19000 warriors MAY hold blood names in the clans, but there will NEVER be this many due to Reaving.
 The Trial of BloodRight is made up of however many warriors the clan chooses to allow, these warriors must have sponsors, certain warriors are assured to compete in the tournaments but for some its not so certain, these 'Mech Warriors must go through the melee, a 30+ giant freakin bash where warriors fight till the last man or woman, this person gets a slot in the Tournament.. As Diana Pryde, a Freeborn warrior, had to do to earth the most prestigious blood name of the Clan Jade Falcon. After this Melee, all the warriors int he tournament fight, often to the death until the final round and then the victor recieves their Blood Name, the highest honor in the clans, higher than being SaKhan, Khan, or even the ilKhan, this is hands down the only drive for a warrior, to achieve this Blood Name and to contribute their genetic material.

 Freeborn Warriors also can get Blood Names in all the clans as there are FreeBorn blood names they compete in the same fasion but no one gives a darn about them. But some clan FreeBirth warriors can compete for even the most honored Blood Names, but only if their lines coincide with the genetic material of the line, and sometimes entire Blood Names are simply created for anyone to compete in.

[(TLL)Highlander]

The Trial of BloodRight is made up of however many warriors the clan chooses to allow, these warriors must have sponsors, certain warriors are assured to compete in the tournaments but for some its not so certain, these 'Mech Warriors must go through the melee, a 30+ giant freakin bash where warriors fight till the last man or woman, this person gets a slot in the Tournament.. As Diana Pryde, a Freeborn warrior, had to do to earth the most prestigious blood name of the Clan Jade Falcon. After this Melee, all the warriors int he tournament fight, often to the death until the final round and then the victor recieves their Blood Name

I'm no BT expert but i cant help to think this might have slightly thwarted the clans. Think about it, you have two kickass warriors and make them fight to the death, you have effectively destroyed half of your fighting force without killing a single enemy, let alone a brawl with over 30 warrior as a PERLIMINARY to the tournament where even more warriors die. Kinda sucks because i really like the Clans, but they come off as kinda stupid sometimes.

BTW, what is the Reaving?

[Valaska]

 The fights are not always to their deaths, but there is great dishonor in ever ejecting so a lot of clan warriors prefer to be killed than not.. But its encouraged not to kill the other warrior and considered a waste, but also you have to think of it as a good thing, that one warrior wasn't up to par, and now its removed and its faulty genes are now not going to be donated to the genetic material of the next generation. The thirty+ warriors who fight in the beginning, a lot will die, but its the way of the clans, these warriors were barely good enough to get into the sponsorship, most of them are there for personal reasons of their sponsors to gain ground and positioning, use these soldiers as bartering chips or status..
 Many of these Mech Warriors aren't worth being in it, and it will be shown by their demise. You have to remember, the warrior caste's life of the Clans are so hard there's nothing to compare it too, no house warriors know anything of the pain these warriors live through unless they are defectors from the clans, no sphere soldier knows the sacrifice, punishment, the hardships etc.. No matter what any Sphere fan thinks, the elite Kurita's etc, don't compare to this society.. The clans are natural selection and survival at its peak!

 Oh and Reaving, one Blood Named will challenge another ones purity, honor and the like, the clan will then deem it worthy or not of continuing to hold this Blood Name through an investigation, or a trial of grievance/refusal. This has to be done within the Blood Name itself, so only a Pryde can challenge a Pryde, but a Pryde cannot challenge a Clees or obviously a Chistu.

 It has been CONFIRMED that if that Blood Named warrior for what ever reason goes ends up in another clan and has the Clees blood name, then another Clees can Reave that Clees in that Clan.

[[MPB]OM_Sannyasi]

clans can afford to lose as many warriors as they like- just plan ahead and make an extra large 'crop' next time- they don't have to worry about convincing people to join them- they just make their warriors as needed

[=KoS=Zeus]

It still takes 18+ years to grow them.

[[MPB]OM_Sannyasi]

and all this was planned 18 years ago- the trial of positions, bloodname trials. about half the warriors bred don't even make it to being a mechwarrior- just change some requirements if stuff starts goin downhill- clans been doin this for a few hundred years. not to mention a seasoned warrior is much better than 2 or 3 green warriors, fighting each other keeps them above average- kinda like the spartans- (which im sure is were many of the clan ideas came from) they fought with each other alot, but when it came time to defeat forces of greater numbers they could unite and whoop up on em real good and easy