Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

[Shadow Hawk]

The breast removal thing was part of the myth, which was a distortion of the truth. Greek myth said that Amazons were incredible bowmen (bowpersons?) which matched the links to the Scythians. Using a Greek style bow the way the Greeks did (Pulling to the center of the chest) would be impossible for a well endowed woman as the Amazons were said to be. So, they must have...

Actually, they used shortbows and pulled to the eye, like a modern bowman. And they weren't 'well endowed' like the Greeks portrayed them. No one was. Which causes much fewer problems.

So, anywho, we have the myth (wrong) and the reality.

Back to topic.

Battletech campaign. I found myself going one on one with my 45 ton Phoenix Hawk against a 80 ton Awesome. Out gunned, outarmored, and this guy kept on beating me in initiative rolls, so I couldn't get behind him. Every turn, we'd trade fire. He had trouble hitting me, but my hits were hardly scratching his armor. And after every salvo, he'd broadcast over the radio: "I'm not impressed". It was getting annoying. He's crippled my mech, I can't run, another solid hit and I'm going down, when I got lucky. I hit his head with both my large laser and my medium, killing him instantly. And my response...
"Now are you impressed?"

[ghost-angel]

How much later are you talking about? Homer and other classical age Greek writers wrote about the Amazons as a people, including several stories about their queen.

This was a while ago mind, and I'm not credited historian - but when I was researching Persia and surrounding area it was noted that historically a lot of references were to warrior-classes because many interactions were between armies - it doesn't help that the Ionian's mangled the Persian word with their accent from the start and may also have misunderstood that the word referred to the cavalry and not the people themselves. History gets a little fuzzy around the edges sometimes as well as to who actually was where doing what. . .

The European mangling also references the extremely weird etymology of the word amazon to mean "without breast" or some such silly reference - which is wholly false no matter how you look at it.

[Susano]

See, this is why I don't let myths and/or reality get in the way of my gaming. If I want big-breasted butt-kicking Amazon warriors in my game, then I'm gonna have big-breasted butt-kicking Amazon warriors in my game!

[ghost-angel]

Battletech campaign. I found myself going one on one with my 45 ton Phoenix Hawk against a 80 ton Awesome. Out gunned, outarmored, and this guy kept on beating me in initiative rolls, so I couldn't get behind him. Every turn, we'd trade fire. He had trouble hitting me, but my hits were hardly scratching his armor. And after every salvo, he'd broadcast over the radio: "I'm not impressed". It was getting annoying. He's crippled my mech, I can't run, another solid hit and I'm going down, when I got lucky. I hit his head with both my large laser and my medium, killing him instantly. And my response...
"Now are you impressed?"

heee... I love Battletech stories.

Reminded of the time I managed to down a Battlemaster in my 20-ton Locust.

From that point forward I referred to the Locust as an Assault Mech. . . (The Lance Captain in his Marauder was not amused)

[Netzilla]

This was a while ago mind, and I'm not credited historian - but when I was researching Persia and surrounding area it was noted that historically a lot of references were to warrior-classes because many interactions were between armies - it doesn't help that the Ionian's mangled the Persian word with their accent from the start and may also have misunderstood that the word referred to the cavalry and not the people themselves. History gets a little fuzzy around the edges sometimes as well as to who actually was where doing what. . .

The European mangling also references the extremely weird etymology of the word amazon to mean "without breast" or some such silly reference - which is wholly false no matter how you look at it.

Oh, sure, I have no arguments about the etiology of the word being all FUBAR. I was just wondering about their not being viewed "as a people" until later. Technically, classical age Greece was several centuries after the Trojan war, so could count as 'much later'. I just wasn't sure if that's what you meant or if you were talking even later.

[Netzilla]

See, this is why I don't let myths and/or reality get in the way of my gaming. If I want big-breasted butt-kicking Amazon warriors in my game, then I'm gonna have big-breasted butt-kicking Amazon warriors in my game!

I fully agree. In fact, I'm running a Mythical Greek campaign right now and one of the characters is an Amazonian. Unless there's something the player hasn't told me, she still has both breasts as far as I know. How buxom she is hasn't come up yet.

[Balabanto]

These quotes are from my Vigilance Teen Champions Game

On Christmas Eve, Prestige gets turned into a Reindeer, (Well, Body Switched with Dasher, who was also very unhappy)

Dasher: Look, you gotta help me. I'm getting more girly by the second!!!!!

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Plastron: Silver Sentinel, could you fly up to the roof and let Prestige in?

Silver Sentinel: Of course I shall! I shall gladly allow this reindeer to enter our domicile!

Plastron: (Private radio message) Sarah, laugh, and that car your father is letting you put together? You'll never drive it.

Silver Sentinel: (Activating silence field over mask) Sure!

Openly

Silver Sentinel: Enter our base, Prestige.

Prestige: Activate the security code! I don't have any thumbs!!!!!

Silver Sentinel: Oh, right.

Silver Sentinel: Privately, under the silent mask.

HAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA! Gawd, that's so funny!

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Prestige: Could someone unchain me from this sled?

Dasher: I think I know how to do it from this side.

Prestige: COULD SOMEONE WHO IS NOT A REINDEER IN MY BODY UNCHAIN ME FROM THIS SLED!!!!!

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Donner: Hey, Blitzen! You landed okay!

Blitzen: Yeah! It was pretty awesome!

The Knight (OOC): Blitzen's not the brightest bulb in the display, is he?

[ghost-angel]

Oh, sure, I have no arguments about the etiology of the word being all FUBAR. I was just wondering about their not being viewed "as a people" until later. Technically, classical age Greece was several centuries after the Trojan war, so could count as 'much later'. I just wasn't sure if that's what you meant or if you were talking even later.

Most of my sources are post Rome translations of Greek Texts... so, both earlier and later?

[Greywind]

heee... I love Battletech stories.

Reminded of the time I managed to down a Battlemaster in my 20-ton Locust.

From that point forward I referred to the Locust as an Assault Mech. . . (The Lance Captain in his Marauder was not amused)

...machine gun to the center torso, crit hit for 3...

...all engine...

Only hit the Warhammer took in the battle...

[Lucius]

He got his weasel's worth.

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary thinks it's better without context

[Vulcan]

heee... I love Battletech stories.

Reminded of the time I managed to down a Battlemaster in my 20-ton Locust.

From that point forward I referred to the Locust as an Assault Mech. . . (The Lance Captain in his Marauder was not amused)

The only Battletech story I have belongs in the Darwin Awards.

BTW, never, ever put any ammo in the Center Torso. Period.

I take it back, there's always the story of the Unobtainium parasol...

[jwpacker]

...machine gun to the center torso, crit hit for 3...

...all engine...

Only hit the Warhammer took in the battle...

Oooh... the salvage... *drooling sounds*

Ages ago in a similar battle. 2nd round of the combat, landed a 30 ton Mech with jump jets on the head of a 95 ton custom unit called a HoneyBadger, taking it out. Then got tagged and well plastered by an Archer that had been laying back, forced me to punch out of my mech before it went up.

Me, as I fly out of the cockpit: <drawn out, southern-sounding expletive deleted>, what a ride!

[Ian Mackinder]

I dunno, maybe we need another thread for Battletech stories of unlikely kills.

Here's mine, which happened to my best friend. He was in a tournament, playing a Locust (naturally!) up against a much MUCH bigger Mech (what else!). He opted for a charge attack, and managed to knock his opponent off a cliff.

The big Mech landed. On its head. Fair amount of damage done to that location, but the Pilot was OK and the Mech still able to fight. Then the Player failed his Piloting roll for getting that Mech to stand up.

The big Mech fell down. Again. On its head. Again.

It did not get up after that.

[Shadow Hawk]

Famous Last Words: Battletech edition.

Enemy (NPC) Warhammer fires everything at a (PC) Hunchback pilot, at range 2.

GM: Two PPCs... miss. SRM6... miss. Two medium lasers... miss. Two small lasers... miss. Two machine guns...
Hunchback Pilot, in mock terror: "Oh, no, not the machine guns!"
GM: Hit, critical, location... head. Cockpit.

Hunchback pilot survived, heavily wounded. Never again mocked machine guns.

[tmutant]

Never mock machine guns.