Nah, everyone is lifting from Macross, but Harmony Gold owns the rights to most Macross stuff outside Japan and they're kinda copyright trolls, not doing anything with it and suing anyone they can get away with. Battletech used Macross designs because Tatsunoku (I think) sold them the license as well, even though they weren't supposed to. Really, the licensing of Macross stuff is a massive tangled mess.
That's it. Messed up who was stealing.
That's over two decades old already, in fact. Already starting in 1994 FASA had to suddenly change a whole lot of 'Mech designs because they looked just too close to Robotech.
FASA doesn't even exist anymore. Its licenses (Shadowrun and Battletech, mainly) were bought by 2001 German company FanPro, who 2007 sold them again to Catalyst Games. Apparently Catalyst tried the whole "Unseen" issue again in 2009, which failed. And then made some statement in 2015 that basically was "Yeah okay we're giving up". Something like that, at least, I think.
Well, you could as well say the same about Shadowrun then, the two always came in a package
(conversely, D&D has basically made zero inroads here). Holding the rights to DSA, Battletech and Shadowrun was hence pretty solid.
Well, you could as well say the same about Shadowrun then, the two always came in a package
FASA just plain went down financially. FanPro meanwhile was a pretty solid German company, who at the same time also published Das Schwarze Auge, which is Germany's top pen and paper RGP. Germany's "standard fantasy" RPG like D&D, but way more dominant than D&D is on its home market, and yes, I know that already is a lot. Basically you can't do pen and paper RPG here and avoid DSA
But then they had some really weird business ideas: Selling off all the licenses for those franchises except the novel licenses, on which they wanted to focus. So they sold off the DSA licenses to a new company extra founded for that purpose, and sold off the Battletech and Shadowrun to Catalyst Games. That... didn't work out and FanPro went down in 2012.
Well, Catalyst Games is still around. And holding the rights since 2007, so hey, going strong. Longer than FanPro and only two more years and they've caught FASA. Though, 5th Edition Shadowrun sucks
(and really, early 4th Edition books just looked... more professional, in a way)
Well, Catalyst Games is still around. And holding the rights since 2007, so hey, going strong. Longer than FanPro and only two more years and they've caught FASA. Though, 5th Edition Shadowrun sucks
So, to fight monsters, the US Army created a Monster of their own?Was it that obvious? It was that obvious, wasn't it? Ooooh, I knew it would be obvious. *looks over the last page a half of cluelessness*
...I'm either supposed to say 'never mind' or 'now I feel old'. Dunno which.
Anyway.
2-69-3 New Mechanized Battle Robot Inventory!
1x MAC-II (Mechanized Assault Cruiser) Monster
12x MBR-07 Spartan
20x MBR-04 Tomahawk
@Strypgia can deal with painting the suckers. It's his BN, not mine.
Classic warning signs that things are not quite right, but it wouldn't be Evangelion otherwise, so...
Blaming oneself of your near murder is a bit of a warning flag, to put it mildly.
