CLASSIC BATTLETECH CATALYST game labs

Righto, time to introduce a degree of order to this madhouse (of which I am at least partially responsible for, eh?)

This thread is for all requests for mechs, and writers to note their upcoming articles, and pick up requests.  If multiple authors want to do the same mech, they should co-operate.  This is also the place to look for editorial help to pick out those typos and niggling errors before an article goes live.  Last, but not least, we can hopefully work out a staggered release schedule so that we don't overwhelm Fan Articles with a torrent of hot, stomping love death machines.

This should hopefully help moderate the chaos.  I will update this post once a day, maybe more.



Uh... all the folks that have been posting in Article Archive 4, please list what mechs you are doing/plan to do/estimated completion period/resources or assistance that you may need, as well as any requests you may have received.


Use this format:

Mech:
Writer(s):
Expected completion:
Resources needed:
Assistance needed:


Requests should be made in a similar fashion to help writers locate resources that they need.  As well, articles that writers are thinking of doing, but haven't actually committed themselves to should be listed here as Filled Requests.  That way we know that you're interested in it, but perhaps, not sure when you can do it.

chanman IIRC Iron Mongoose had already said he would do the Marauder.

Mech: KBO-7A Kabuto
Writer(s): Evil Imperial
Expected completion: December 3th-4th
Resources needed: None
Assistance needed: Sarafan fact checking and editing

Updated List with list of date of competion:
Kabuto (December 3rd or 4th) <Posted>
Venom (December 10th or 11th) <Posted>
Hitman (December 17th or 18th) <Aborted>
Blitzkrieg <Dropping out>
Black Watch <Dropping out>
Anything after that is possibly a no-go due to IM return but I may have other stuff in mind.

Additonal Resources: None
Assistance needed: See above

Quite the list there.  I hope we don't overload next week.  I guess I'll delay the Mad Cat III

You already know the ones I'm doing, Chanman.  But for the benefit of everyone else:  Jinggau, Yu Huang, Templar, Mad Dog, Nova/Black Hawk Ku.  All articles are expected to be completed within the next two weeks.  Expected plans to post them will be in a space of once a week, one week after the most recent MoTW thread I see (there's a reason why it's called Mech of The Week.  I suggest everyone else learn to show some restraint instead of just posting away, else we should end up calling it Mech of The Day)

There are no TW versions of the Emperor.  All of the variants were done with good old fashioned level 2 tech.

Don't worry too much about it.  We're just going hog wild for the month, to give everyone who's always wanted to do some of these a chance.  Starting January, I hope to take back the reigns and get back to one a week.

Now, of course, neither you nore I nore anyone has any say in the matter.  I can no more stop you from posting as you can anyone else.  But it would sure be nice if we could get this all our of our system now, which was the hope I had entertained.

Mech: Beowulf
Writer(s): Wars128
Expected completion: December 13-23(maybe a little sooner)
Resources needed: none
Assistance needed: maybe editing and fact checking

Mech: Emperor
Writer(s): Wars128
Expected completion: December 13-23(maybe a little sooner)
Resources needed: none
Assistance needed: need somebody to help me with the 3058U variants, as well as maybe editing and fact checking

The Helios article is done and ready to go. I'll work on cleaning up the Stone Rhino article this week so call completion Dec 8th. Is there a published record sheet for the Stone Rhino 3 or is the description in 3055U it that we have for that variant? 4 LPL, 2 ATM-9 with 4 tons of ammo and two ER micros to the rear?

I'm in no particular hurry to post either of them so I can wait until a slot opens up.

Well, with what everyone has claimed, that now takes the IS mech list down to 56.,.

Anubis       Bandersnatch     Bishamon     brigand      buccaneer     chimera     
chimp        cobra                 daimyo         dart           Den-shen       Dragon fire
duan gung  falcon                galloglas       garm          grim reaper    gunslinger
gurkha       hammer             hermes         hermes III   hoplite          hussar
initiate       kintaro               lightray         marauder II  mauler         mercury
nexus        o-bakemono       orion            phoneix hawk                 pillager
quickdraw   raptor                raven           red shift        scarabus     shogun
shugenja    simian               snake          spartan        stinger        strider
talon          templar grayson                   templar tandred              tessen
testing       thunder             toyama         watchman                    wyvern

The Celestials were already done in a six-pack by IM, I think, though that was before the new variants came out.  In any case, it might be a good idea to hold off on those until the entirety of their canon stock configurations come out.

The Templar Grayson and Tancred will be covered in the Templar article I'm doing.  And there are no such 'Mechs as the "Chimp," "Simian" and "Testing.." and what the Hell is a Den-Shen?

Though I call dibs on the Capellan 'Mechs (Anubis, Duan Gung, Pillager, Raven. and Thunder), provided they legitimately need an updated article, since I'm pretty sure they've already been done several times over.

If no ones taking this one, I could do an article. But - I'd need an editor who got the RS:DA, since a) English isn't my native language and b) I don't own the book, so I'll have to work with the data from MegaMek and the dossiers.

I can help on thouse accounts (I need to fight the withdraw).

By the way, does "Faraday" mean you like the Mandrills, or just that you are in to electromagnetism?

Because as everyone knows, Mandrills hate electromagnitism.  Poo is a poor conductor, after all.

RS:DA, as far as I know, just has the stat blocks - same as you can find in Megamek or HMPro.

I'd be happy to edit for you.