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Hmm, well I don't want you to feel bad, I'm enjoying the debate myself but I also don't want to henpeck so consider everything except the specific point you asked about dropped. I feel the words I quoted support my position better than yours as far as space in the 90s. Let me lay them out in...

Yeah, that's somebody on Sarna playing silly buggers with the timeline because they noticed it didn't match history but didn't realize it's an AU. The Soviet Union didn't collapse in the BT timeline. At the beginning of the 21st century, life on Terra had not changed much from what it had been...

Lolwut? Battletech has a single world government for Earth by 2014, the KF Drive theory was laid in 2018, they had working Fusion Engines in 2021 and flying infantry using jetpacks in 2025. By 2110 they'd terraformed Mars into an Earth-like planet using their massive spacelift abilities to...

The big answer is that almost no BT weapons actually deliver damage via kinetic energy. As I pointed out with the identical damage between autocannons and hypervelocity autocannons, autocannons don't do any damage whatsoever from the shell hitting, only from its explosive payload. BT's always...

Actually, it canonically cannot. For starters, the Devs have stated that BT uses only metric and any imperial measurement is to be considered non-canon. Second, a 50-cal is considered to be equal to a Support Machine Gun per XTR0:1945 which does 0.94 damage, all damage against a 'mech is...

Seemingly relevant, somebody did the math on how much energy it takes to remove a single point of armor from a BattleMech. Based on how a PPC would treat Rolled Homogenous Armor per XTRO: 1945, it's around 90Mj. An Abram's main gun is thus roughly equivalent to a Light Rifle and would do...

Note that a bog standard ammo feed in BT will have no problem putting a ton of ammo in the left leg and then seamlessly threading the bullets all the way to four different guns in the head, torso, and hands. It will have no problem around all the internals and even through the knee, shoulder...

It's also worth noting that BT Autocannons do not do any damage from kinetic energy. All the damage is delivered via High Explosive Armor Piercing rounds. This is especially apparent with the Hypervelocity line, an HVAC/2 uses the exact same ammo as an AC/2, but explicitly has a vastly higher...

Found a bit more information on the computers, per Chaos March page 54, a low-end Noteputer has 10 gigabytes of storage while a highest-end Noteputer has up to 50. So their performance is probably a good bit behind ours. A lower-tier Amazon Fire has 32GB and our higher-end tablets are way...

Looking at the Warrior's Catalog, a noteputer that looks to be their equivalent of a tablet is half a kilogram. A Desktop is 3 kilos, a text reader equal to a Kindle Paperwhite is 200 grams. They don't have any equivalent to a smartphone, phones seem to only come in "Walky-Talky" and...

Probably fail utterly the first time, due to the pirates getting in and out faster than the politicians have come to grips with what is happening and sent any military assets. By the time the pirates return for another bite six months to a year later, there's likely to be a doctrine to deal...

Per Price Of Glory the Helm Memory Core was half a meter long. So their floppy drives ain't too small either. It seems to me that in general, on modern earth we have the opposite thinking process as BattleTech. In BT, hardware is expensive and lives are cheap, so making a very cheap 'mech is...

Hmm, my preferred map would keep the great houses, but make a series of periphery-type 3rd-world nations as buffer states in between them, used both as client states by the great houses and as scapegoats, with a lot of bushfire wars and sub rosa maneuvers against each other. My reasoning is...

I like the idea behind the map but I fear balkanizing it quite that much will just lead to 90% of the nations being on the map and getting no real references from the writers and no development whatsoever. I mean from the beginning it seems like nobody has ever remembered that the Free Worlds...

Not after they get shot up trying to beat the CASPAR fleets they won't. That was a more powerful navy that everybody else combined that just didn't come online.

But if the SLDF bogged down faster due to the Periphery being far better equipped, they wouldn't have time to trample the entire periphery fleets and all their shipyards before Amaris made his move, and Kerensky in this TL instead retreated from them to preserve as much firepower as he could to...

My guess would be the Star League doesn't limit the periphery after a much gentler Reunification War and then Amaris beats down Kerensky after he musters all the Great Houses to his side (Possibly Amaris got the CASPAR system under full control). The first means all those small periphery...

Helm, at least, was specifically bombarded with nukes and most of it was still Radioactive during the Gray Death Saga. Warships would probably actually be less destructive because at least having the place melted with Naval PPCs wouldn't have left radioactive fallout for hundreds of years after.

There're a few specific cases, though granted the number of instances in print are dwarfed by the number of weapons, it is a wargame after all. While not a Great House, the Magistracy used the rediscovered civilian technologies to create their prosthetics and cybernetics... granted they also...

This. Remember a ComStar Precentor murdered an entire planet with nukes just to frame the Gray Death Legion, on the off chance that Grayson might be smart enough to find the Helm Cache that ComStar wasn't even sure existed. He hadn't found it yet, he didn't even think there was a cache on the...