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There's another idea that was rattling around him my head, but i forgot it............

WAIT, THERE IT IS!  Right where I left it under the 'I'm hungery' file 

Anyone else play MechWarrior?  It was an Activision game *if memory serves* and was later bought out by Microsoft.

I first played MechWarrior 2 when I was young on my Mom's old Windows 95  *so yeah, that one's old.*  Last one I was able to play was MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries.  There were others, but only on console *me no have *

If you've never played any of the games, you are placed in the middle of 31st century combat, and your job is to drive one of these:

a MASSIVE walking tank of sorts like the AT-ST, but MUCH better!  There are many different types of mechs *The one pictureed being my favorite, a heavy called the Timberwolf, or 'Mad Cat' by Inersphere pukes * including lights, medium, heavy, and assault classes.

The main point of contension in the Mech world is uaually between the Claners and the Inner Sphere, but internal conflicts are always breaking out within the two.

Most of the games that have been made by Microsoft deal with the Inner Sphere and it's inner conflicts, while the older games were about the Clans.  I'm an old Clan Wolf fan from Mech 2 still *DAMN JADE FALCON CLAN!!!*  It's a complicated story-line, so a smaller comflict within the Inner Sphere would be easier to manage for an RPG here.  Wiki has the entire list of Mechs available, but few pics.  I MIGHT be able to take some in-game pics, but I've never tried it before with my game, so no promises.

If anybody is interested, this is a third concept that we might be able to iron out into something workable.

I used to own the old MechWarrior tabletop with the plastic, paintable models...I think I've played the video game...i dont remember...

big giant robots is cool...im so damn busy though...i dont know if i have time for another RPG...:(

Wow! Great Ideas... but they totally sound way out of my leauge. I know I've never played either of those games, and in general don't know much about actual war. Star Wars... yes. Middle Earth... yes. Oblivion... a smidge. But the 15 minuets I have playing CoD4 is a much real war type stuff I know. But I'm sure you guys will make them great!

I like it too, as I've said. And not everyone would have to be a resistance "fighter". Others could be civilians hiding, running supplies, medics, etc. It would be a very creative RP, because, as a resistance, its not a very organized, strict, or militaristic group. It's likely ragtag, with some being former soldiers, and others possibly criminals. Teenagers with a taste for adventure. It would be a very interesting RP to be in, to see how people create their characters looks, clothes, past, personality, and, for soldiers, weapons.

vod is singular--brother/sister/something else? and is pronounce like it looks. soft "o" vohd.

vode is plural--brothers/sisters/whatever I forgots. and is pronounced "vod-DAY"

so it would be vode, if you're talking to all of us. Or vod if your talking to Ralin, as he came up with them all.

So how do you all want to do this?  Should we take a vote?  A_A seems enthusiastic for Mech, and we have Werda Verd for Freedom Fighters so far. 

I came up with them, so I'm happy with any of them 

Also, if you guys would like to reserve places/items or anything like that, that's one of the perks of being in the Clans      *I call Timberwolf for when we play Mech!*

I have to agree with Si on that one, I'm all for freedom fighters as I've never had any experience with Mech, but it is your choice seeing as how you created these awesome ideas

If you get into the politics of the setting, yeah, Mech is complicated as HELL!  However, if you stick to the warrior side of it *what you do in the games* it's pretty simple.

Game Side of Mech:

Drive a super improved and better looking AT-ST-like vehical and blow the crap outa' stuff..........and thats about it

Political Side of Mech:

I don't even know......  Well, I do some of it, but SUPER complicated.  Long story short, you got the Inner Sphere in the middle of the galaxy based on earth *your more average folks,* and you got the Clans on the outskirts of the galaxy.

Clans make better weapons and have better warriors.................but they're sorta weird on some issues

Inner Sphere has more production power and seems to always get lucky......

However, you guys are right.  Freedom Fighters is MUCH more user friendly for those who don't know the genre of modern weapons/tactics; the setting would be flooded with those who don't, so you would fit right in.  In Mech, would be hard to play anything other then a Mech pilot, requiring you to know something about that field *or going out and learning someting about it.*

Thanks vod, but I'm not looking to mod any more RPGs; not now anyway.  Got a bitter taste still about how I fell down on ES5, and don't want that to happen again. 

I'm more interested in looking for a position as #2 in the moding process; the writer to the director in a movie so to speak.  A good poster and RP mod like Werda Verd or V_M could be the directer, posting and moderating the RP.  I can be here to help expand on the details, background, and setting of the RP as needed.

Anyway, that's what I'm aming to do.  If anybody wants to Mod one of these, give me a heads up and we'll work it out.

And BTW, when we do the Freedom Fighters RP, I got dibs on M-14 with sniper scope and a pair of 1911 .45s   

Not enough more, but yeah.  Just calling mine now in case there's those who want to be different 

IDK, might be a bit fancy, to; especially for New York.  Might just go with a folding stock AK that I take from a Red.......

I planed to steal the intro from the game that this is based on; will send it to you in a PM.

Timeline would be about now

The main reason I'm thinking you should be the RP mod Werda is becuase I think it should be very similar to RepComm.  A small scope RP in the midst of chaos.  The story should be narrowly centered around a small resistance group and any civies they pick up, and the Reds who they are directly fighting.  With our smallish active member communtiy, it really helps to keep the scope of these RPs low; one of my mistakes with ES5.  The smaller the scope of the RP, the more interation, and the smoother/faster the gameplay and timeline. 

So the setting is a single, small, resistance group fighting the Reds in NY City *or someplace else*

I'm thinking wait until at least another one of the active RPGs dies or seriously slows down.  AoS as picked up speed lately, so until that cools back down and/or something dies, I think we better just hang onto this one.

Since we have to wait, might be a good time to share character concepts if anybody isn't sure what they want to use  *COUGH Si&CA COUGH*