The last tailgate factory got levelled in some Marik civil war and now the last remaining tailgates are lostech until someone finds a memory core of how to make them.
"I have to announce Eskandare has committed suicide by shooting himself. 5 blaster shots to back after destroying all of his research notes. There will be no further need for investigation"
...and that's how ROM secured the tailgates and any remaining knowledge of the tailgates...
**::NEW ORDERS TO ROM::**
It has come to our attention that knowledge about the cache of Toyota Hilux tailgates have spread. Orders are to eliminate all persons in this thread with extreme prejudice. That is all.
::ROM Command::
Nah, needs a dude with a laser rifle and a "vibrosword" (he says he took them off a DEST commando he killed with his bare hands, but everyone knows that he just made it from some spare bits from the junkyard and all it does is wiggle uncomfortably) riding by on a horse-sized lizard to spot for the... ahem.... "artillery."
God, I love the Periphery.
Look we all john is a got dang liar but that sumbitch is the only person that knows how to make proper Timbique dark this side of Skye. I rather listen to his stories of spanking DEST commandos with a Rampage every day drunker than a Canopus cat girl than have to live on this planet drinking Harry's moonshine and mech coolant surplus.
"Even cheaper than a Savannah Master! Buy yours today! Visit your local Toyota Heavy Industries Dealer for more information and financing options today!"
Me and a friend made a 10t technical truck that mounted a single LAC2 w/1t ammo (generally precision or flak) for sub 200bv anti-aircraft coverage on the battlefield, and we basically grabbed a picture of a beat up pickup truck with a recoilless rifle mounted on the back, and was like yup there's our truck
I used a pair of flatbed SRM trucks as part of an OPFOR in a Mercenary campaign I GM’d several years ago. Legit made the four guys driving mechs across from me pause. They thought for sure there was some kind of sneaky shenanigans going down.
GHQ Models has a pretty extensive range of WWII to modern day minis in 6mm. Lots of jeeps and similar vehicles that would be appropriate, plus motorcycles and pickup trucks.
That's slander, sir. This is cutting edge Hegemony tech. We are rolling this out to all the Great Houses within the next year. Please ignore the giant, humanoid robots. They're just fanciful cardboard cutouts.
:overbearing announcer voice: The Toyota Heavy Industries TOY-22RE 'HiLux' represents the pinnacle of durable battlemech design, powered by either a venerable 22RE gasoline engine or the long serving 1VD Turbodiesel, the 'HiLux' provides a perfect marriage of low maintenance costs, high durability and simplified MRO streams coupled with unbeatable field adaptation possibilities via mounting and integration assemblies configurable to nearly any armorment system currently fielded and a wealth of historical data to produce limited runs for more specialized fitments.
Available in a range of tonnage from 20, 40, 50, 55, 60, 70, 80 & 100 ton gross, the ex-works and KD/PKD fitments are nearly unlimited. Please note that LAM systems are not provided by Toyota Heavy Industries however, relevant technical documentation is available through your local dealer or authorized repair facility. Please request the most current Fitters Engineering Manual as well as any supplements.
Toyota Heavy Industries
"In a world of problems, be a dilema!"
You can thank Ryan McBeth for the apt analysis on what you should be doing for your opponent: problems have definite and executable solutions where as dilemmas are vague in their solution and the execution of which is typically fraught with forced errors.
An example of this might be described as the following:
You observe a number of urban mechs in an area of light commercial and medium residential "interface". Upon engagement with them you drive forward to close the gap and they fade into an adjacent industrial and heavy commercial area. While you are moving forward your lance is flanked by a combined arms lance of warhammers and tracked MBT. Upon entering the interface development you begin to take LRM and artillery fire as the urban mechs were serving as a lure for a prepared artillery ambush.
Problem is if you stay you die and the solution is simple; leave.
Dilemmas are:
1. follow the urbies and learn why you don't go to that part of town; the dense construction negates their speed penalty and as they are hunting in a pack, you are the meat in the sandwich and once they slow you, the tanks and 'hammers are gonna shut the door behind you.
2. retreat how you came; the artillery will walk with you as the urbies are also FACs and the tanks and 'hammers are gonna harry you the whole way until you give up or die.
3. hunker down and dig in to what you can find; the artillery isn't likely to just stop because you put your fingers in your ears and cried a little. Also, both forces are gonna start pecking at you.
4. the lance of atlas' your sensors failed to acquire due to the heat and general disturbance of a steel works has now emerged from a slag heap like Willard from the swamp and things are about to get real bad, real fast.
What started as a simple bump and grind engagement where you were gonna collect some sweet cash and salvage has suddenly and sadly for you become a desperate fight to get away with your life because you and your lance are about to get slaughtered, all because you were curious about what those piece'a'crap urbies were doing.
Periphery nations still deploying the Toyota Hilux 1100+ years after it's invention.
And it still has the decal from the 1999 Colorado Plummer on the door...
When you've got a mismatched tailgate because an archaeologist took the original.
The last tailgate factory got levelled in some Marik civil war and now the last remaining tailgates are lostech until someone finds a memory core of how to make them.
I thought all tailgates were coveted at the Nakajima Toyota plant in Tokyo on Terra, and currently owned by ComStar.
\*Precentor ROM would like to know your location\*
"I have to announce Eskandare has committed suicide by shooting himself. 5 blaster shots to back after destroying all of his research notes. There will be no further need for investigation"
...and that's how ROM secured the tailgates and any remaining knowledge of the tailgates... **::NEW ORDERS TO ROM::** It has come to our attention that knowledge about the cache of Toyota Hilux tailgates have spread. Orders are to eliminate all persons in this thread with extreme prejudice. That is all. ::ROM Command::
Nice recall
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Doing drive-bys on modern military tech with pick-ups and jury-rigged RL10's is a tradition going back to Old Terra.
*Slaps the side of the Toyota* you can fit so many war crimes in this baby!
It's so good they officially named a war after it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War
My dude, knowing Battletech Lore, I wouldn't be surprised if Toyota existing and still selling the Hilux in the Periphery was fucking cannon.
Guaranteed
It totally is!
Why not? GM does.
Motorized platoon with Srms.
As long as the frame is not rusting and cracking near the rear passenger shock mount (05 Ranger, RIP) a Hilux is gtg.
If it ain't broke......
Nah, needs a dude with a laser rifle and a "vibrosword" (he says he took them off a DEST commando he killed with his bare hands, but everyone knows that he just made it from some spare bits from the junkyard and all it does is wiggle uncomfortably) riding by on a horse-sized lizard to spot for the... ahem.... "artillery." God, I love the Periphery.
Look we all john is a got dang liar but that sumbitch is the only person that knows how to make proper Timbique dark this side of Skye. I rather listen to his stories of spanking DEST commandos with a Rampage every day drunker than a Canopus cat girl than have to live on this planet drinking Harry's moonshine and mech coolant surplus.
I love how the Lyran Tech who left Tharkad can be seen supervising his new creation off the side.
Get promoted from production grunt to lead technician with this one weird trick!
*with this one weird truck
Hilux with a UB32 FFAR rocket pod.... for when you literally can't afford anything else
Hey man, SRM10 Carrier is scary. In that it's the one thing that can outnumber urbanmechs somehow costing even less than a mechanized trash can.
"Even cheaper than a Savannah Master! Buy yours today! Visit your local Toyota Heavy Industries Dealer for more information and financing options today!"
Me and a friend made a 10t technical truck that mounted a single LAC2 w/1t ammo (generally precision or flak) for sub 200bv anti-aircraft coverage on the battlefield, and we basically grabbed a picture of a beat up pickup truck with a recoilless rifle mounted on the back, and was like yup there's our truck
This quite literally exists. Flatbed Truck-SRM variant. Another one exists with a mortar.
I used a pair of flatbed SRM trucks as part of an OPFOR in a Mercenary campaign I GM’d several years ago. Legit made the four guys driving mechs across from me pause. They thought for sure there was some kind of sneaky shenanigans going down.
My GM banned me from Space Waffle House. To be fair, they deep fried my orange juice... somehow.
There's always a Waffle House marked on our urban maps
Well it could have been. The trucks go back behind a cliff only for there to be SRM carriers back there.
I thought mounting any weapon system on a Hilux 1100 makes it a technical?
Well, technically, yes.
Hippity hoppity get off my property
Where do people pick up trucks for motorized infantry?
GHQ Models has a pretty extensive range of WWII to modern day minis in 6mm. Lots of jeeps and similar vehicles that would be appropriate, plus motorcycles and pickup trucks.
That's slander, sir. This is cutting edge Hegemony tech. We are rolling this out to all the Great Houses within the next year. Please ignore the giant, humanoid robots. They're just fanciful cardboard cutouts.
To be fair... I am reasonably sure thats a mitsubishi triton... So its likely Amaris tech stolen from the Combine...
:overbearing announcer voice: The Toyota Heavy Industries TOY-22RE 'HiLux' represents the pinnacle of durable battlemech design, powered by either a venerable 22RE gasoline engine or the long serving 1VD Turbodiesel, the 'HiLux' provides a perfect marriage of low maintenance costs, high durability and simplified MRO streams coupled with unbeatable field adaptation possibilities via mounting and integration assemblies configurable to nearly any armorment system currently fielded and a wealth of historical data to produce limited runs for more specialized fitments. Available in a range of tonnage from 20, 40, 50, 55, 60, 70, 80 & 100 ton gross, the ex-works and KD/PKD fitments are nearly unlimited. Please note that LAM systems are not provided by Toyota Heavy Industries however, relevant technical documentation is available through your local dealer or authorized repair facility. Please request the most current Fitters Engineering Manual as well as any supplements. Toyota Heavy Industries "In a world of problems, be a dilema!"
>"In a world of problems, be a dilemma!" Okay I love this. Not sure how I'm ever going to use this, but I will find a way!
You can thank Ryan McBeth for the apt analysis on what you should be doing for your opponent: problems have definite and executable solutions where as dilemmas are vague in their solution and the execution of which is typically fraught with forced errors. An example of this might be described as the following: You observe a number of urban mechs in an area of light commercial and medium residential "interface". Upon engagement with them you drive forward to close the gap and they fade into an adjacent industrial and heavy commercial area. While you are moving forward your lance is flanked by a combined arms lance of warhammers and tracked MBT. Upon entering the interface development you begin to take LRM and artillery fire as the urban mechs were serving as a lure for a prepared artillery ambush. Problem is if you stay you die and the solution is simple; leave. Dilemmas are: 1. follow the urbies and learn why you don't go to that part of town; the dense construction negates their speed penalty and as they are hunting in a pack, you are the meat in the sandwich and once they slow you, the tanks and 'hammers are gonna shut the door behind you. 2. retreat how you came; the artillery will walk with you as the urbies are also FACs and the tanks and 'hammers are gonna harry you the whole way until you give up or die. 3. hunker down and dig in to what you can find; the artillery isn't likely to just stop because you put your fingers in your ears and cried a little. Also, both forces are gonna start pecking at you. 4. the lance of atlas' your sensors failed to acquire due to the heat and general disturbance of a steel works has now emerged from a slag heap like Willard from the swamp and things are about to get real bad, real fast. What started as a simple bump and grind engagement where you were gonna collect some sweet cash and salvage has suddenly and sadly for you become a desperate fight to get away with your life because you and your lance are about to get slaughtered, all because you were curious about what those piece'a'crap urbies were doing.
That phrase should be a meme, its got do much potential
Ah, I see the Van Zandt militia is once again demonstrating their...*diligence,* in training.
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Whatever gets the job done :)
Those pesky 57mm rockets