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Calbeck
#46250
1 year ago
Yep. I need to clean up the lines and add some color. And I dunno, maybe just rework the entire thing, but I had to get this frickin' image outta my head.
Anonymous
#46344
1 year ago
Glad to know I'm not the only Pony/Battletech fan out there.

Though when I thought of the concept my mind immediately went to General Luna Kerensky leading her forces away; promising to return one day.
Anonymous
#46416
1 year ago
We're jumping onto White Cloud--- YAAAAAARRRRRGGHHH
Anonymous
#46528
1 year ago
Sweet mother of Kerensky in a jumping Orion! Just how many of us Pony/Battletech fans out there?

...maybe I should start that MLP/BattleTech crossover I've been thinking of...
Anonymous
#46622
1 year ago
Rarity kicked blindly. With a smirk, Gilda simply caught the diminutive unicorn's hoof in her massive claw and shoved her roughly to the ground. With a laugh, she bent over and plucked the medallion from around Rarity's neck. She studied it quizzically, her griffin eyes glancing over the burnished surface.
Rarity staggered to her hooves. "You'll never get away with this," she spat. Drawing herself up to her full height, she glared at her feathered captor. "When Celestia's forces return, you'll all pay for your crimes!"
Gilda eyes shot up from the medallion, a moment of fury playing across her feathered face. Suddenly, before she could react, Rarity felt the griffin's claws snatch out and take her by the throat. She gasped and struggled, but still felt herself being lifted bodily off the ground by the griffin's powerful forelimbs.
"You still do not get it, do you, little Equestrian warrior?" she glowered. Fishing into a pocket of her fatigues, Gilda drew out a second medallion, strikingly similar to Rarity's own. A menacing smile somehow spreading from her beak, she dangled it almost playfully before Rarity's widening eyes.
Gilda leaned in closer and hissed, "We ARE the children of Celestia."
Calbeck
#46733
1 year ago
Anon1> HOLY CRAP ANOTHER IDEA I NEED OUT OF MY HEAD *scribbles furiously*
Anonymous
#46755
1 year ago
Me and my roommate have been bouncing ideas back and forth for pony mechs. We are currently thinking about using partial wings on a quad mech to get some pegasi mech designs. Any thoughts?
Calbeck
#46871
1 year ago
Well, I'm thinking that most if not all military tech in Equestria is magic-based. Enchanted power cores, that kind of thing. So enchanted mech-wings might be the equivalent of jump jets.

By default, quad 'Mechs would be the standard, I'd think. It's more natural to ponies. But since ponies also stand on their back legs to do some things, you might have a transforming 'Mech of some kind...and that brings us into "LAM" territory.

But it can't be a Land-Air 'Mech. Not punny enough, and also too close to lawsuit material (Harmony Gold has NO sense of humor). Hmmm...

PEGA? Powered Equinoid Ground/Air?
Anonymous
#46912
1 year ago
^There are actually Land-Air-Mechs in the current TRO. The whole "Unseen" is now limited to just over a dozen designs.

Also.... Trixie is Katherine Steiner-Davion according to my canon.

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Anonymous
#46923
1 year ago
And, though I may be damned for saying this.... Pinkie Pie can be Cassie Suthorn.

But damn this kind of crossover would require grimdarking a lot of ponies....

Celestia should be given one of the "Big Good" roles; either Focht or Jerome Blake.

I fully support Gilda as Vlad Ward though.
Anonymous
#46999
1 year ago
^^^would all depend on the nature of the crossover. One COULD create all new mech and fluff to shoehorn BattleMechs into the Ponyverse, or one could do a more direct crossover and simply use existing BT designs and concepts, just ponyfied (in which case Pinkie would pilot a Locust--she's the only one crazy enough).

Although, unicorn magic could explain BattleTech magic armor... and ammo capacities...
Calbeck
#47002
1 year ago
^^ Seriously? They originally had to phase out the LAMs because of HG's suit. Interesting.

I'd note that this is also a great option for OC characters...there just aren't enough ponies to fill out the BT cast. Hmmm...Pokey Pierce as Morgan Hasek-Davion? And "Him" as Hanse -:)
Calbeck
#47016
1 year ago
Also, I'm torn between ponification of existing designs and creating new ones. Let's do both. -:)
Anonymous
#47037
1 year ago
^For inspiration, I prescribe "CritterTech" from Crunchy Frog Studios.
Calbeck
#47120
1 year ago
^ Eh, I never liked that. Even though it was licensed to use the BT ruleset, the background they came up with (baseball puns? really?) was just dumb. -:/

PONIES, now...-:D
Rationalinsanity
#47218
1 year ago
(anon 1, 6,7 here)

The lawsuit only ever applied to over a dozen Mechs that HG had a claim to. However my understand is that FASA panicked and recalled every design that originated for other companies (mostly Japanese ones) that had nothing to do with HG.

Question is; how do we make pony like quad-mechs viable?

Now I'm tempted to write the Mane cast up in the new A Time of War RPG.

That or the a direct crossover fic involving Pinkie Pie's joy ride with a Dire Wolf.
Calbeck
#47333
1 year ago
Well, quads are already viable. No problem there. In fact it works better for them (control couch, legs go into reaction sleeves, sleeves read the data for running, jumping etc, in addition to the neurohelmet).

They don't have to be overly ponyish any more than BT 'Mechs are overly humanish. Paint schemes and unit names will go plenty far, as will the use of magic for power supplies --- aka, the Power (instead of Particle) Projection Cannon. That sort of thing.
Anonymous
#47718
1 year ago
Not to be overly nitpickey (love the reference, realize its a quick sketch, etc.), but "Pegasus jump tank"?
*pulls out TROs*
Hmm, doesn't look much like a Pegasus. Not like a Kanga jump tank, either. Maybe a heavily-modified Savannah Master?
Anonymous
#47794
1 year ago
Have you seen the Balius yet?
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/images/c/c7/Balius.jpg
Calbeck
#49773
1 year ago
^^ I used "Pegasus" because it's something a pony might call a hovertank...and I used "jump tank" because it sounded about 20% cooler than "hovertank". -:D
Calbeck
#49778
1 year ago
Aaaand...just looked up the Balius...seriously? This is an actual official canon thing.

*double facehoof*
Rationalinsanity
#49957
1 year ago
Yeah..... some of the new quad mechs are a tad crazy. I can't remember the name of it but Clan Hell's Horses (another Pony crossover waiting to happen...) got one that looks like some kind of demonic rhino.
Anonymous
#50375
1 year ago
^^^
Clan Hell's Horses has two "Totem" battlemechs that follow the equine design.

The Balius is a more traditional approach to a horse design but are so few in number only select Bloodname warriors use them.

The second is the Thunder Stallion, an assault mech that moves as fast as a Battle Armor due to its support role in combat, and to emphasize Hell's Horses creed on combined arm tactics.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Balius
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Thunder_Stallion