From mwang@pandadesigns.com Fri Sep 27 00:25:46 EDT 1996 Article: 18913 of alt.games.mechwarrior2 Path: news.accessus.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-chi-8.sprintlink.net!gatech!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!mwang From: mwang@pandadesigns.com (Michael Wang) Newsgroups: alt.games.mechwarrior2 Subject: Re: Raise your hand if you want MW2's Mechlab in Mercs Date: 26 Sep 1996 17:43:59 GMT Organization: Panda Designs Lines: 34 Message-ID: <52efd0$9c0@ns2.mainstreet.net> References: <52dg6i$7g5@castle.nando.net> <52dt99$5t8@ns2.mainstreet.net> <52e313$qdt@blackice.winternet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pandadesigns.com Status: RO In article <52e313$qdt@blackice.winternet.com>, Loren Willis wrote: >Michael Wang (mwang@pandadesigns.com) wrote: >: Also they've left off the weapon stat display, which wouldn't be so >: bad if they documented all the stats but they don't. Even worse, some >: of the stats have changed since MW2 (e.g. LRMs have a much shorter >: range), which I'm guessing will screw up many people's mech designs. >: >I forget whether clan LRM's have more range than Inner Sphere ones, but I >know that clan energy weapons as a rule have greater range than Inner >Sphere counterparts. Same with ballistics, except the LB10X, as I remember. That's what I thought originally, that maybe I was using IS LRMs, so I went back and checked the mech and it did have Clan weapons. I even rebuilt it to make sure I didn't screw something up. Looking at the BattleTech manuals, I can see now what's happening. The weapon specs in MW2 and GBL don't match the BT specs. For example, in BT, an Clan extended-range large laser has a max range of 25 hexes, which translates into 750 meters, while in MW2 it has a max range of 1019 meters. In BT, Clan LRMs have the same max range as IS LRMs (the Clan weapons are just smaller and lighter) which is 21 hexes or 630 meters (which is the range I was seeing in Mercenaries), but in MW2 the LRMs have a max range of 1000 meters. I don't know why the MW2 weapon specs are different than BT, but I think this is going to confusion a lot of people making the transition >from MW2 to Mercenaries, especially since I didn't see it documented anywhere. Michael Wang mwang@pandadesigns.com