The Update of Februrary the 12th
Added 2025-02-13 01:31:30 +0000 UTCAll is more or less improving. Be well. Shitposts to follow.
Comments
Leaving Heart in comments, to keep the total at 69
Steve Constant, 'Splash Mountain'
2025-02-24 18:48:00 +0000 UTC(Save voice if you like) I wish I could help out with SS14, (I popped in once so far and wandered around trying to figure out how hands and stuff work 😂 I’ll see if I can’t pop on more often) maybe in time…. Speaking of time, I caught your recommendation of “Castles of Steel” off one of your videos and it was quite the eye opener. So much so, I had to read more into the political intrigue of the start of the war. I’m currently getting through “The Sleepwalkers” by Christopher Clark and it’s absolutely bonkers how the political landscape was arrayed before world war 1. I’d love any other good recommendations if any come to mind. (Any era) Oh right, “Blind Man’s Bluff”was also a great read. Thank you for mentioning it. I forget where. UAD has also sunk a lot of my time. Sad to see it get dropped like it did. Even more so by the poor reviews… Thinking of playing Germany and focusing solely on submarine tech throughout the play through with everything else coming second. Thoughts? Worthy of a “Let’s play? Keep doing what you do!
Akaelik
2025-02-19 07:28:22 +0000 UTCHey there, Tex, always good to hear from you. Save your voice. Working on my own Magistratum Mundanus game, I do have a question, mind. I understand how the basic setup is for the characters, 2000 xp spent in a career other than Arbites. You then state that the Arbites path is shared among the party as the new career. Does that mean the player characters no longer have access to the old career, or does that mean they can choose from both the old career and the new? Thank you for your time, sir, and Joy of the day to you and the team. Don't let the Bastards Grind Ya Down, and Northwind Forever.
Bolo Unit BRL of the Line
2025-02-19 04:55:58 +0000 UTCHi Tex, I just saw your latest refit of the Von Muffinbeard in UAD. And I have to say: This is why I'm still subscribed. I was just watching you upgrade it and going "Why? Why?!" while laughing tears. Keep up the insanity
Panzerfan
2025-02-17 21:07:41 +0000 UTCGreeting Mr Tex. I have your next fundraiser idea. Do a dramatic reading of The new BT novel Hungry like the Wolf. We will raise enough money to cure cancer and end homelessness.
Bryan Kollmorgen
2025-02-17 02:40:04 +0000 UTCHow pleasant connecting with long dead people through poetry is very much dependent on the context. I’ve been dimly hearing this playing in the back of head since the election and every time I read the news it gets a little louder. https://youtu.be/RNZ5qylG3qk?si=78Ybs70xyOb5-4Qs
Jellicoe Cats
2025-02-16 14:39:50 +0000 UTCOn phone so I can't do paragraph or line breaks, am sorry. :( You needn't read this aloud, Mister MrTex. I've got to support Fighter Phoenix's suggestion for an episode about the Inner Sphere's best Battlemech: the Orion. Such a good mech regardless of time period. It didn't lose as dramatically when they lost the high technology base during the Succession Wars, and stayed above average once the Memory Core was reintroduced. All of the evolutions of it were also above average- the Merlin Omni as well as the "Primitive" Reconquista (take a look at the official arts for both of them. Reconquista isn't officially a teched down Orion but it uses the Orion art and is shown as such in BTA3062/U).
Vendrette, The Postalmech
2025-02-15 15:30:00 +0000 UTCHowdy Tex, save your voice, hope you bounce back soon on the illness front. School has been going, been doing well otherwise, and I've properly begun Painting Quar, even made my own little faction of Border Barons using a hodge-podge of equipment. Hope you have a good one! And I'm looking forward to more Paper!
Grimos
2025-02-13 18:45:51 +0000 UTCGood afternoon Tex, Save voice! By the time you read this, I will be running or have already ran my first session of my Magistratum Mundanus campaign. Thank you for all the advice and the answers to my questions! I’ve never felt the urge or confidence to GM before, but the MM creates this perfect mix of approachability for guys not too familiar with 40k, but still is 40k enough that I feel like I’m in my comfort zone running stuff in that setting. I’m also super impressed with my friends who have created perfect characters for this setting. Thank you again for the handbook and I hope the field trip went alright!
Costco Hotdog with Relish
2025-02-13 18:12:59 +0000 UTCGood day Tex, Save your voice if ya want. This is a long one. Update from the local gamestore battletech intro games. We picked up where we left off, minus two previous players and one new one, my hunchback IIC versus an Ostel and a Wraith The hunchback died being cored by the Ostel, I got to come back in with a Timber Wolf. Next turn Timber Wolf ran in, failed a piloting check for skidding (turning on a road for those that don't know) and fell onto the Wraith, Axeman failed it's piloting check so it fell. My Timber Wolf fell on its heas and the Axemans head, getting all the outside head armor, then the Axeman fell on its head and killed the pilot. The new players Warhammer then called shot my head, and killed the Timber Wolf. Next turn drop in with a Dire Wolf and Axe Man. Dire Wolf out the gate destroyed the axe on the axeman and the LBX 20, then proceed to fuck up both the warhammer and the axeman. Cored the Axeman. Next turn the returning player dropped a Nightstar. Nightstar got a critical on my left arm. Apparently the Dire Wolf stores ammo in the arms. Blew arm and side torso off, but survived, seeing as all shooting happens simultaneously, I alpha striked back then cored myself from the other ammo cooking off. It was fantastic. Planning on doing a full lance next time, still working on details. But going from this grinder, one mech then moving to the next weight class after death, what would be your recommendation?
Fireonfriendly
2025-02-13 15:55:16 +0000 UTCHey Mr Tex, save your voice. In my quest for filing the roughly 40 hour void of work with podcasts and audio books I was listening to old wolfnet episode. They had a demo of an audio book of you reading I think it was lethal heritage? I was curious if you could share any updates on that, as I couldn't find any sign of it being released in the years since that episode. Though maybe I just didn't look hard enough. Thank you for all you do, and especially for filling my working hours with many good laughs and insanity.
Nigel Hewitt-Debrusk
2025-02-13 11:34:38 +0000 UTCHello Tex. Sickness and real life have kept me away but wanted to drop a line to thank you and your team for the manual. You sounded much better this time round. The battletech campaign i asked you for help in balancing is going well and we are actually rotating who is the GM as we have so many players 8 currently (that's a lot of Mechs even with us only controlling 1 per player) and one being my older brother whom i got back into the hobby after being out of it for 20+ years. So a battletech question. Which do you prefer if you had to pick one. PPC or Gauss Rifle. For me the PPC edges out only because it will never run out of ammo but usually I would say why not both. Curious where you fall on that question. As always keep swinging one at a time.
Czarvak
2025-02-13 11:12:36 +0000 UTCThe "Jewish Penicillin" made me do a double take, as my roomie also said that recently, only to him that is different from regular chicken noodle soup because it is chicken and dumpling soup.
Jay McIntyre
2025-02-13 07:07:30 +0000 UTCHey Tex, laughed out loud at the Chicken Soup : Jewish Penicillin joke. But there is a variant you must try, it's the " Gentse Waterzooi or Ghent Watery mess" Which sounds awful, but is chicken soup raised to the next level. So you start with chicken which you can cook, braise, grill or whatever, you then get the usual veggies in a large pot : onions, the white part of a leek, celery, a carrot and some diced potatoes and a bay leaf and stock, slowly simmer that for a few hours, make a roux to thicken the soup, add finely chopped chervil and parsley, salt, pepper to taste, a bit of nutmeg and a few beaten egg yolks. Just before serving add a healthy dose of cooking cream (if you add it too early it curdles). You are supposed take the chicken apart and put some in a bowl and add the sauce over it, but I just add it to the soup. It's nice comfort food for wintery days and will fill you with joy and happiness.
Nonkel Bob
2025-02-13 05:57:20 +0000 UTCPlenty of books written by people who aren't weirdo proto fascist conspiracy nuts to read, no need for his drivel to be heard by anyone imo.
Raeven Rises
2025-02-13 03:22:56 +0000 UTCHey Mr Tex, have you by chance heard anything about the new Land & Sea books been written by Blaine Lee Pardoe? I've been falling out of love with the most recent battletech stuff, definitely not helped by some of the ways that cgl had treated the Kickstarter. I'm sure you have a mile high stack of backlog books but if it ever crossed your desk I'd be curious to hear what a long time battletech fan such as yourself thinks of the new franchise.
Ryan Foster
2025-02-13 03:05:50 +0000 UTCHappy to hear you are all doing well, hope the plumbing issues were resolved with as few inconveniences as possible given the circumstances. Take care of yourself as much as you can force yourself to, please. Again, thanks to you and your team for all the work you do!
that guy named dan
2025-02-13 02:06:56 +0000 UTCHey Mr. Tex if Luby's still existed in the battleteach universe would Stefan Amaris had visited that instead of Golden Corral?
russell marsh
2025-02-13 02:04:23 +0000 UTC
