Answering the Questions in a rare Morning Session
Added 2025-01-16 14:40:55 +0000 UTCGOOD MORNING
MAY IT BRING GOOD CHEER AND TIDINGS TO YOU
ON THIS COLD DAY
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So many books, so little time.
Killian
2025-01-23 12:49:29 +0000 UTCI really should get around to reading those more thoroughly.
Molly McAllister
2025-01-22 22:58:50 +0000 UTCModern Artillery In The Field: A Description Of The Artillery Of The Field Army, And The Principles And Methods Of Its Employment by Henry Arthur Bethell Artillery Through the Ages: A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America Hand-book of Field Fortifications and Artillery; Also Manual for Light and Heavy Artillery ISBN: B0BQFPGLRB The Development of Artillery Tactics and Equipment: Official History Of The Second World War Army (Paperback) by Brigadier A L Pemberton US Field Artillery of World War II (New Vanguard, 131) Zaloga, Steven J. German Field Artillery of World War II (New Vanguard, 325) - Softcover Zaloga, Steven J. On Gunnery (Second Edition): Field Artillery Cannon Gunnery from the Civil War to the 21st Century King of Battle: A Branch History of the U.S. Army's Field Artillery (TRADOC Branch History Series) Desert Redleg: Artillery Warfare in the First Gulf War (American Warrior Series) Field Artillery and Firepower (Combined Army's Library Series, Vol 1) Steel Wind: Colonel Georg Bruchmuller and the Birth of Modern Artillery
THE BLACK PANTS LEGION
2025-01-22 22:14:10 +0000 UTC(Save voice if you wish) Dear Tex, I may have a comparable/solution to your train problem. My town back in the 80s had a problem with Union Pacific. Some of there conductors would go through town at all manner of the hour, blaring their horn and ringing the bell. All the way through city limits about three miles. The city finally had enough of the torment from the evil train overloads and passed a railroad code of ordinance. Under the grounds of noise pollution and upsetting the day to day live of everyone. Trains are quiet here and I have never noticed anything else like it in other cities. We have around two to three come though about every hour.
Michaela Jantz
2025-01-22 15:50:07 +0000 UTCGood Day Tex gauge yourself if voice is needed. A Battletech tabletop question. Have you made custom scenarios and if you have how do you balance them. Trying to make some scenarios for the group that's playing through a "campaign" to allow the normal GM a chance to play. Besides having the players run it and see if they die or cake walk it, how do you try to balance a scenario?
Czarvak
2025-01-21 16:19:58 +0000 UTCI'd go with odyssey because I am all for the mental picture of mass murder between gang fights. The grandfather's quest would be picked up, and taken by his grandson. He received a trench coat from him loaded with 200 bladed weapons to use. He stood next to an old closet and opens it on a whim to look inside it, lo and behold, there was the coat and blades everywhere on the walls, scattered on the floor, and up on the ceiling. He stood in awe as the reflection of the sun light in the evening made everything seem to sparkle in the room. Hearing noise on the steps up to the attic, he quickly and quietly closed the door then went over to a couple boxes scattered around for other things of his grandfathers. So he figured, *why not*, and opened up random boxes what he found though was a crazy version of an old hero mask and a somewhat tight uniform The next day he was bored and figured why not go up to the attic to check on it, only to find the suit had assembed the entire outfit properly on an old manequin that was in a dark corner of the attic. He was shocked when the suit started talking to him, *"Put me on, so I can talk to you properly"* the suit said. So he complied and put it on only to have it snug up to a perfect fit on him as the helmet started talking again. To be continued...
PsychoApocalypse
2025-01-20 00:16:00 +0000 UTC(Save voice if you like) The intro to Spains Ultimate Admiral is just bonkers good. Wanted to hear what you thought about these two knife fight city concepts for the same title. “Finding Hemo” [Either] A father telling his kid of his grandfather’s odyssey to stop the fight between two rival gangs the white bloods and the plate letter(knives) (Narrated in a wholesome way, but visually grindhouse) [OR] An animated film blatantly copying finding Nemo, but instead of the ocean, you are traveling the human body. It would be the story of a father fighting off the nazified white blood cells to find his son. This channel/group/podcast is easily 100 times better than any mental help therapist I’ve seen. I’m having a bad day? I load up xenonauts or a space station 13/14 video and within 10 minutes I’m either chuckling or have forgotten my own sorrows. This is such a worthy investment.
Akaelik
2025-01-18 07:35:27 +0000 UTCNever putting ammo in the feetsies is a rule to live by. Getting legged is dangerous enough, the last thing you want is to make it easy for them. What if a through-armour crit hits that ammo bin in your thigh, eh?! As for LANCER, have you checked out the official addon books like Long Rim or Karrakin Trade Baronies?
Killian
2025-01-17 21:09:38 +0000 UTCWatching you play Spain in Admiral Dreadnought is like playing Cosmic Encounter with someone at the table playing…. https://cosmicencounter.fandom.com/wiki/Sniveler
Jellicoe Cats
2025-01-17 20:24:19 +0000 UTCCertain large mechs (mostly assaults) like the King Crab and Stalker are outright stated in places to have, behind the cockpit, the equivalent of a small apartment.
Rieverre
2025-01-17 17:21:57 +0000 UTCNo speak, brain read, much goodness. If you got to write a crossover event for Knife Fight City and another IP what would you pick? Also I have abused my phone enough that the one time I actually tried to write "ducking" it corrected it to "fucking". I was a bit proud.
ManUnmade
2025-01-17 07:08:56 +0000 UTCI recently re-stumbled upon your U-boat art, and thought.. wow this man has used software to illustrate the human consciousness. And so I will just share this with ya'll: "How a World War Two Submarine Works" by Animagraffs on Youtube* *They put in a lot of effort. And who doesn't want to learn how a U-boat works at 3am?
Walt_Man
2025-01-17 05:08:08 +0000 UTCGood day Tex, save voice if desired, I was wondering if you'd ever be interested in doing a biography episode of Tex Talks Battletech covering one of the men inside the machines in greater depth rather than the machines themselves. Good tidings, relative health, and reasonable fortune.
Drendar Morevo
2025-01-17 04:42:48 +0000 UTCNo worries, Tex! I'm sure the credit omission wasn't intentional. May've even been due to my having the wrong card on file a month or two ago. Knowing I've furthered y'all's creative endeavors is plenty.
ketch me outside
2025-01-17 02:35:12 +0000 UTCGREETINGS TEX! Been there with the house of hidden surprises. Just bought a house last year and we've had to replace the roof, tear out a bathroom due to a terminated (but not marked as such) laundry drain, and a whole breaker box was wired in backwards. House is over 100 years old but everything broken is either due to someone not knowing what they were doing or cutting corners in the last 30. Be safe out there Sir.
The Great Ryanificus
2025-01-17 01:51:45 +0000 UTC(Save voice if needed) Hey Tex, Timelessness. Now that is a word I've not come across often, but it encompass well the quiet beauty of rural areas. Currently staying around urban areas for the job in the past years, and it is always something to explain to people enjoying them how lonely it can be to be surrounded by a crowd and the utter chaos of an entire population. Nonetheless, working for the goal and enjoying the journey has best can be. Btw, very nice to hear those recitations of poetry. Hope they will come from time to time between all the projects. No pressure. Have a good week
BK2207
2025-01-16 23:00:40 +0000 UTCHope things have been proceeding within acceptable parameters professionally, personally and production-wise. Feel free to save voice. Just ruminating on tabletop games and RPGs remembering my own start of interest into Battletech. I've been considering Lancer and got on their discord to try and flesh-out my understanding of it's systems and lore, expressing my fascination for the idea of this setting with an economic tech-base built around exchanges of data and ubiquitous industrial 3-D printers and got back... "Well, that's not actually what it's about as a canon rule. It can be anything, absolutely anything, and that's just your own interpretation of it which is perfectly valid." Which, I know they meant well but in my head upon hearing that was [PANIK!!!] I'm finding myself just bouncing-off a lot of newer style of 'no-no, really, you can do Anything here' games. Rules-lite, Rules-Heavy, I just want the Crunch and fluff to be consistent within their own context and 'Nothing is Sacred, Everything is Permitted' just kills me with analysis paralysis. This is probably why I gravitate toward Battletech and especially the succession wars era. Things are simpler, and if following the fluff particularly well can add a whole new layer of stakes and rewards from the character's perspective which I find rewarding from a player perspective. It's why my proposed Battlemaster refit was so bone-simple, keeping in mind what would be logically possible in that context (It's why I will never put ammo in the feetsies and you can't make me). In short, I'm one of those that just finds it much more engaging trying to figure out how to get over/under/around/through fences than trying to figure out what to do with myself in an infinite unfettered sandbox. And I picked Davion as my first house because they got Buckaroo Banzai, how cool is that? GM Autocannons! Also, I can only assume the point of divergence between our timeline and the Battletech timeline is that in BTtime Jack Welch never became CEO of GE and ushered in the age when 'Too Big to Fail' stopped meaning 'We're so overdiversified and stable we literally Can't sink' to 'We've over-extended and over-leveraged everything to the point where if you let us go bankrupt we're taking the nation's economy down with us'. And now we can't have Pontiac autocannons.
Molly McAllister
2025-01-16 21:47:50 +0000 UTCSomewhere in an alternate universe Spanish Thailand becomes the ultimate food fusion place. I now need to find some food mixing those flavors!
Magic Kebabs
2025-01-16 21:02:09 +0000 UTC(Save your voice) Stop apologizing Tex. It's all good. Do have a question and you may have answered already. Is there more of the traveler game coming to the podcast?
94razorz_
2025-01-16 18:07:01 +0000 UTCAnd a lovely morning to you, Tex! Save your voice, don't worry about reading this. Good luck to Mike as he travels and for the interview and filming, and to the rest of the crew in their work! It's exciting to hear about all the progress. I'm so hyped. Wishing you and all the beeple people / patrons a belated happy new year - I'm still recovering from the COVID infection I picked up a week ago but I'm grateful for the community and the ability to laugh my shit off at UAD: sPAAAAAAAAAAAIN.
BZArcher (Blind Zen Archer)
2025-01-16 17:37:43 +0000 UTCQuestion: (Save Voice) Tex, what is your take on the new Keltec 5.7 pistol with a top fed internal 20 round mag? Also, what is your take on Keltec as a whole? Also also, what is your thought on a modernized C96 in 5.7?
Geeko170
2025-01-16 16:18:51 +0000 UTCStop apologizing! So is new job still Military Industrial Complex? *takes money out of HIS OWN pocket and gives it to you, runs away*
Jay McIntyre
2025-01-16 16:13:24 +0000 UTCIt only happened once but, I had the reverse issue with phones. When texting my group lead, I was trying to type duck, but my phone corrected it to fuck. Luckily, my group lead has a wicked sense of humor and had a laugh about it. May the Peace of Blake be with you!
James or 01010001
2025-01-16 16:11:01 +0000 UTCHey Tex just wondering during the Clan invasion was there any Inner Sphere mech that can go toe to toe with a Clan mech and win?
russell marsh
2025-01-16 15:49:50 +0000 UTCNo need to read this out loud. This is just a request for that reading list of the Eight Artillery books mentioned, just to know what were drawn upon and if there are books missing from my collection in the hopes to add to more to this area of interest. If anything, just writing it below instead of reading it out would be since this is a very complex subject and I am always looking for more books to add to my research library.
Khymerion
2025-01-16 15:44:22 +0000 UTCGreetings Mr.Tex COFFEE IS LOVE COFFEE LIFE. (help I have a crippling caffeine addiction.) There is a chance of snow NEXT Wednesday in my sate. For geographical reference we need to get milk for the bread and milk sandwiches.
cgdeth
2025-01-16 15:19:21 +0000 UTCGood evening Mr. Tex. As someone who cannot stand the taste of coffee, I've only recently discovered the wonders of caffeine through Bang or other such energy drinks. I'm curious, how do you take your coffee, and how much coffee do you drink a day?
Santo
2025-01-16 15:16:14 +0000 UTCReading aloud optional: Love you big Mister Tex. Do you ever get tired of covering Battletech? Don’t get me wrong, I love it to bits and it’s probably my personal favorite sci-fi setting. And as I understand it we’re similar in this regard. But I often find myself obsessing over it so deeply that I completely burn out for a couple months and then eventually recapture my infatuation. Do you experience this? If so how do you manage it? PS: What’s on the burner for Tex Talks History?
Haligaz
2025-01-16 14:42:05 +0000 UTC
