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Is it bad of me to not want to get the Battle Lance just so I don't have a Rifleman?

I love the Warhammer, but I seem to be hating the Rifleman more than I love the Warhammer.

This isn't against the model (it looks great), just the general build of most of the Riflemen variants.

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@Aphyon- Dang, that made me want that Lance pack now too! Good work on them!

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 Easy E wrote:
@Aphyon- Dang, that made me want that Lance pack now too! Good work on them!


Yeah being an old school player i have a bunch of the original un-seens but i never had the original rifleman, archer, warhammer or marauder. so picking up these packs was a thing i could not resist. especially with the quality of these new plastics.

I already picked up the starter box with 8 mechs to get more un-seens like the (another) wolverine, shadow hawk, thunderbolt etc...

The nice thing about battletech minis is they don't take long to paint unless you want to do some serious detail like the guys on cammo specs.

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Nice Albertorius , what did you use for the snow, I've tried the GW stuff, but never impressed with it.

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 Theophony wrote:
Nice Albertorius , what did you use for the snow, I've tried the GW stuff, but never impressed with it.

It's the GW stuff, actually, Valhallan Storm, only mashed a bit so that it mixed slightly with the underlaying stuff.
   
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Thats some great work

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So a fun little thing tonight-using heavy metal pro and a bit of gundam reseach i made gundam compatible record sheets for playing battletech gundam in the larger toy scale.








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I just realised you're using Mighty Empires tiles as hex bases.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I just realised you're using Mighty Empires tiles as hex bases.


Turns out they were just the right size. and they sort of look like textured bases so double win.





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That Gundam game looks fantastic.

Are those the same size as the current action figures.

My son has some of those and they're in the same scale as the 1/144 HG kits.

Its fascinating that you its the same cost to play with 6 inch posable HG kits as with 1.5 inch metal miniatures.

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 Eilif wrote:
That Gundam game looks fantastic.

Are those the same size as the current action figures.

My son has some of those and they're in the same scale as the 1/144 HG kits.

Its fascinating that you its the same cost to play with 6 inch posable HG kits as with 1.5 inch metal miniatures.


They are the mobile suits in action toy line.







I just went online, checked the stats and used heavymetal pro to build the mechs to the best assimilation of the loadouts and performance of the mobile suits in the battletech system.

the GM customs for example is 60 tons with an ultra AC5, a head mounted set of machineguns, a sword and a torso mounted cockpit, XL engine and jump jets.
keeping in line with the fact that gundam mecha are incredibly agile and lightly armored for their tonnage compared to classic battletech.

We then just run them using the 3d terrain rules (1 hex=2") as heavy metal pro allows you to automatically print the sheets out in that scale.



I have also seen players re-purpose the hero clicks version of the battletech minis using the same system.

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 aphyon wrote:
 Eilif wrote:
That Gundam game looks fantastic.

Are those the same size as the current action figures.

My son has some of those and they're in the same scale as the 1/144 HG kits.

Its fascinating that you its the same cost to play with 6 inch posable HG kits as with 1.5 inch metal miniatures.


They are the mobile suits in action toy line.







I just went online, checked the stats and used heavymetal pro to build the mechs to the best assimilation of the loadouts and performance of the mobile suits in the battletech system.

the GM customs for example is 60 tons with an ultra AC5, a head mounted set of machineguns, a sword and a torso mounted cockpit, XL engine and jump jets.
keeping in line with the fact that gundam mecha are incredibly agile and lightly armored for their tonnage compared to classic battletech.

We then just run them using the 3d terrain rules (1 hex=2") as heavy metal pro allows you to automatically print the sheets out in that scale.



I have also seen players re-purpose the hero clicks version of the battletech minis using the same system.

Thanks for that!
Do you have an aproximate height for those guys? Looks like they are different (and possibly differently sized) than the current Tamashii Nations brand figures my son has.

I'm a big fan of the Mechwarrior Clix figures myself but I rebase them and use them for Alpha Strike or the rules-lite generic "Mech Attack!" rulesets. They're great for club and home play, though I prefer to break out my big (approximately 25-28mm) scale stuff for conventions.

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They stand roughly 4-5" tall depending on the unit.





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I saw them at my local Walgreens and they were about $10 a pop.

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 Easy E wrote:
I saw them at my local Walgreens and they were about $10 a pop.

Sorry I missed those. The current action figures are hard plastic and better detailed and articulated, but they're also $25 each.

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Black Knight Variant Mini Coming Soon!

TL;DR - Catalyst have the new multipart Black Knight Variant and they should be in their store "soon".
   
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Even more impressive, Blaine Lee Pardoe confirmed that they can create more when it sells out- for once in their life Catalyst Games will have a regular restock.

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 Gitzbitah wrote:
Even more impressive, Blaine Lee Pardoe confirmed that they can create more when it sells out- for once in their life Catalyst Games will have a regular restock.
Yes - one of the reasons they were looking for a US manufacturer was to increase availably.

I've just noticed he's said they "are plastic resin" - hopefully they're better than Mantic's stuff!
   
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It's not the Ryoken, so it doesn't matter.

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Not mine, but very cool:

   
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Have to admit, it took me a good few seconds to figure out what I was looking at.

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KS Update #172 - Inner Sphere Heavy Battle Lance & Clan Heavy Battle Star Advanced Final Production Samples

Inner Sphere Heavy Battle Lance
Spoiler:


Nightstar



Cataphract



Axeman



Bushwacker




Clan Heavy Battle Star
Spoiler:


Turkina



Kingfisher



Ebon Jaguar



Crossbow



Huntsman


   
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Looks like that Ebon Jaguar/Cauldron-Born actually has a waist and can Torso Twist, unlike the original visuals and the Ironwind model.

That Nightstar is the only Inner Sphere Assault outside of the big box.

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Pretty, but i don't have to spend any cash on those since i already own most of them, and they are not un-seens that got me to buy the first 2 IS packs.





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Ah. My precious Turkina. Shame the new variants it got in Recog Guide 16 were pretty naff.

The Crossbow on the other hand got some interesting new things in Recog Guide 17. The J and G are quite interesting.

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 Charistoph wrote:
That Nightstar is the only Inner Sphere Assault outside of the big box.

Big box? Several of the Lance Packs have Assaults in them.
   
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beast_gts wrote:
 Charistoph wrote:
That Nightstar is the only Inner Sphere Assault outside of the big box.

Big box? Several of the Lance Packs have Assaults in them.

Of the two I've seen, they've had Heavies, but no Assault. Of course, it could just be that I've only seen the two and was unaware of more.

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Oooh! Another chance to salivate I mean research over the impending glories of the kickstarter.

So Inner Sphere Assaults in the kickstarter, by package
Direct Fire Lance
Atlas, Marauder II

Heavy Lance
Banshee

Fire Lance
Longbow, Stalker, Zeus

Batlle Lance
Nightstar

Urban Lance
Victor

Support
Cyclops, Thug

Comstar Command Level II
King Crab, Highlander

Comstar Battle Level II
Crocket

All told, 13 new plastic sculpts of Inner Sphere Assault Mechs. What I won't do is go find pictures- there's too many updates, and kickstarter's interface is not friendly enough for that.

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