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Cheers! Been having to relocate a lot of this stuff after an unexpected and unfortunate PC and power surging situation...

So....if one were to do the late pledge, when would one (not me, obviously, totally another 'one') expect to receive that product?

 godswildcard wrote:
So....if one were to do the late pledge, when would one (not me, obviously, totally another 'one') expect to receive that product?

Along with the rest of us waiting for Wave 2.

I am just contemplating dipping my toes in, does anyone know when the Mech Packs will be on the commercial market?

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I am just contemplating dipping my toes in, does anyone know when the Mech Packs will be on the commercial market?

Tentatively 2021, assuming you mean the Star/Lances.

Clan Invasion starter, Battletech Starter, and Battletech Beginner boxes(only way I know of to get the Griffin) are available now.

Ok, thanks. While I might only *maybe* will end up playing the actual game with the new (beautiful) models (most likely Alpha Strike or another game I have rules for, instead) I'm definitely thinking of picking up the Clan box and the main box set. While it's technically a waste of money to be paying for non-miniatures material I may not use, I don't know as I want to wait until a nebulous 2021 date for models at all, lol. Value vs. wait time.

It's likely that for the most part, I will be buying the models for either their looks, or for nostalgia value (mostly favorites from years of MW video games), as one of the rulesets I plan on using is not BT loadout related in any way, so mechanical effectiveness of one chassis vs. another not a driving force as much for me.

Lance and Star Packs are also for preorder on Miniature Market, and I've seen some of the Lances on sale in LGSs as well.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Lance and Star Packs are also for preorder on Miniature Market, and I've seen some of the Lances on sale in LGSs as well.

Yes, stores that were retail pledgers to the Kickstarter got their wave 1 stuff to sell now, where most of it won’t be fully available generally until it dribbles out over the course of 2021 other places.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I am just contemplating dipping my toes in, does anyone know when the Mech Packs will be on the commercial market?

From a few pages back in this thread...

 Ghaz wrote:

Das_Ubermike wrote:
I don't foresee purchasing any of the additional plastic lances or stars when they become widely commercially available (in like, 5 years...).

From the official BattleTech forum:

Insaniac99 wrote:If a store was a retailer Backer then they get it at the same time as everyone else. If they did not back, then the retail stores will release on This Schedule:

* Black Friday for Clan Invasion Box
* January for Map Pack Tukayyid and Elemental Force Packs
* February for the two Command Units
* March for the Last Two Force Packs
* Wave 2 Force packs stretch out over the rest of 2021, Starting April-ish and maybe then some.

Oh well. At least the 8-mech Starter and the Clan box will provide a lot of enjoyment for the "foreseeable" future.

"Wave 2 Force packs stretch out over the rest of 2021, Starting April-ish and maybe then some."

So... when is Wave 2?

CGL is hoping end of March. We will see.

Couldn't resist throwing another $150 at Wave 2 items. Alpha Strike being unexpectedly enjoyable, and needing higher model counts pushed me to want a little more.

Grabbed three Wave 2 Clan and Inner Sphere packs, and some more Elementals which you can never have enough of.

Yeah so I'm not really sure what the point of the pilot card decks are. They are just portraits and fluff. No rules or anything.

I re-opened the pledge manager, removed the others I had ordered from Wave 2, and used the credit on a DC T-Shirt and another Urbie.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah so I'm not really sure what the point of the pilot card decks are. They are just portraits and fluff. No rules or anything.

I re-opened the pledge manager, removed the others I had ordered from Wave 2, and used the credit on a DC T-Shirt and another Urbie.

During the campaign they seemed to insinuate they would have stats and special rules. They morphed into a way to fulfill the huge amount of canon characters people submitted.

Which is a shame, as even gunnery/piloting ratings would've been nice. There's certainly room for them.

Instead it's just as I said, portraits and fluff. Not worth spending US$30 on.

So instead, more Urbies!!!

Fortunately, I didn’t buy any of the cards, and only got stuck with the ones that were ‘gifted’ as part of my Star Colonel pledge. I am glad I did not make any effort to buy any more; all they are good for is landfill insulation or the recycling bin.

Can't say that I've got any use for those cards whatsoever, either. However, if you wanted piloting and gunnery skills on them, it would only involve a D6, a chart and a Sharpie to make it happen.

But, I have a feeling that several months/years down the line they're just going to end up in the recycling. Wait! It's laminated card! Scratch that idea...

Fortunately, most do specify the mech the pilot operates- so you can use them for random selection, if you don't mind narrowing it down to the ones in your collection. In that respect you can use them to create an opfor, though a chart is certainly easier.

I'm not saying it's a good use, just pointing out it is a use.

Here's a weird question, but where do you guys tend to get your scale non-mechs? I've never played with anything but BMs, until the recent KS where we've added Elementals to great effect. We're thinking of dabbling with infantry, tanks, etc... but outside of Epic 40k, I have never shopped for anything at that scale.

Any good, ideally cheaper sources of such stuff?

I think it's 1/285 scale.

Yeah, 6mm scale infantry from most scifi ranges should do the trick.

I would assume Iron Wind Metals have some made just for the occasion though?

chaos0xomega wrote:
I would assume Iron Wind Metals have some made just for the occasion though?

They do (link) but I'm not sure where they fall cost wise...

What about vehicles and such? With Reaper helping with Heavy Gear, I would imagine it is plentiful and cheaper?

Oh, any suggestions for prepainted terrain too? Time is at such a premium these days, and I can't get much it the way of time to paint. Scale urban ruins in particular as well as tiny trees? 95% of my horde is 28mm scale stuff.

Iron Wind Metals make official BT tanks and infantry, although I've never particularly cared for most of the classic designs and they're expensive as heck as well. The old metal CAV stuff worked well for BT tanks and VTOLs, but the newer plastic ones are re-scaled for 1/144 and are far too big and the infantry has always been too big. Heavy Gear is also 1/144 and too big.

We've never used enough non-battlemechs in games that people cared if they were the actual designs or not, but that'll vary by group. A few different scources for excellent generic sci-fi vehicles and infantry:

https://www.microworldgames.com/collections/6mm-scifi
https://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/index.html
http://khurasanminiatures.tripod.com/6mmscifi.html

Onslought Miniatures and Vanguard Miniatures are also the correct scale, but too Grim Darkness for my taste

Bummer. I was just going to ask about whether anyone knew if the new Bones CAV vehicles would be too large to match against the current new plastic mech models, as they are nicely affordable and easy to get a hold of.

I do not have the new Battletech models yet(....yet, lol). How do the infantry from the old Clicky-based game scale against them? I have plenty of both normal infantry and different styles of Battle Armor I could rebase and repaint. I DO know that the clix-based vehicle are way too large.

Microworld looks like a good place to get stuff in the US, I have seen their stuff before. Plus they have the REALLY awesome not-OGRE cybertanks. In fact all of their New Terra stuff looks really Battletech-styled, full of sloped armor.

I just got the actual BTech vehicle minis. I think I have a bit over 100 of them now. I like BTech vehicle designs, especially the Clan ones, as they're so damned weird.

I mean take the Mars for example:



It is the ultimate clash between actual tank design and the BTech design rules. It's absurd, and I love it.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I just got the actual BTech vehicle minis. I think I have a bit over 100 of them now. I like BTech vehicle designs, especially the Clan ones, as they're so damned weird.

I mean take the Mars for example:

Spoiler:

It is the ultimate clash between actual tank design and the BTech design rules. It's absurd, and I love it.

Plus it has a Futurama style robot head on its butt.

BTech tank designs have made me appreciate 40k tank designs in a new light.

C'mon now! Some of them are fun.



And some of them are bonkers.