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The "confusion" was from the previous sentence that you ostensibly deliberately did not include, establishing 'now' as the 21st century, or after 2000. Which wasn't your fault but FASA's. The other stuff you provided much better supports your position since it doesn't rely on shit authors...

That's not what it says. Not what you typed. It says they attempted to reconcile in 1990 but given surrounding context that weaponization of space happened after that. In a reply box for ease of reading. My read is that in the 21st century their tangled web of weaponry extended out into...

/shrug Aiight. But then, per the rules we can already build Clantech Machine Guns. And the ammunition needed to do 2 damage. I don't know why you all capped CASELESS. But yeah that would explain why the ammunition is so light. Okay so. Almost nothing you said here actually matters. Or has...

Yes. After the early 90s. It does change rapidly. Timeline on Sarna Relevant bit: 'The earliest events distinct to the BattleTech universe occur after the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union. The United States, Europe and Japan announced in 1994 their intention to jointly...

Except that's not true for everything. As we are specifically talking about machine guns: A tech rating of B is late twentieth century technology. A M100, or any mech or vehicle mounted Machine Gun, capable of dealing '180 MJ' of energy to... 1.25? tons of armor in a 10? second period, can be...

Per Sarna on Machine Guns: Some weapons are occasionally described as .50 Cals but this is likely to be more a generic terminology for machine guns. One instance of this is the M100, described in different sources as being a .50cal[23] (12.7mm[32]) and a 12.5mm,[21] the figure expressed in mm...

None of that actually makes it an autocannon. And stuffing a gunnery crew into a battlemech isn't really an option. We definitely have better AFVs in almost every case. I made no suggestion as to the weight of modern autoloaders. I was saying that we had that much weight to play around with...

The Rheinmetall Rh-120 (I actually say that last night but decided to not include it because it wasn't an autocannon) is also hand fed. But I have to ask how much of that weight also includes the stabilizer and the control motors for fine adjustment? (Do modern tanks do horizontal or only...

There have been several societal collapses, to include the Terran Alliance's fall. It just got lost in the sauce.

No, I actually did account for that in a lot of my musings, because this isn't my first 'why do BT ballistics suck so much' rodeo. That's one of the reasons why I specified WWII MGs, AC/2s, and maybe AC/5s. Because I've actually looked them up, and they manage to fit more guns per ton up past...

Oh, no. Definitely ahead in ballistics. If you start comparing just WWII autocanons to BT's you'll find them better in the MG, AC/2 and probably the AC/5 range in terms of weight and range. Though we basically stopped making Autocannons when missiles started getting better. We do have systems...

Just throwing this out there, to chip in ya dig? I felt like the computers in MW5 looked more like 90s retrotech than 80s. Like it was more streamlined and looked like it had a halfway decent GUI not just a command line. And I really feel that 90s retrotech look. Modern enough to be...