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I have played Battletech, the starter box that came out recently, on the maps it comes with and the sheets it comes with. Fun game.

What I want to do is set up a modular table and play like Mech Commander. Heck, we could even PLAY Mech Commander, using the missions and terrain in the game. Or something similiar.

I have not really looked into it, but I found this.

http://www.waynesbooks.com/Battletech.html

where they mention this old supplement, which might be what I am looking for. I like the mention of Fog of War. I actually typed "battletech fog of war" into Google.



So assuming that is what I am looking for, I would want to combine that with cool terrain and missions with maybe a mercenary/ build your own mechs element, although the basic mechs are cool too.

I am thinking of playing on a large table. I am thinking maybe the equivalent of 3x10 of those rectangular map sheets. Lots of room to manouve, jump around and have reinforcements, rather than a simple combat.

I have a cool idea, included in Fog of War, where you define skirmishes and scouts within the larger battle. So you play IGOUGO for each mech within each skirmish and the scouts/ reinforcements keep moving. Assuming that is not how it already goes.

So like this:

Skirmish #1, Skirmish #2, Skirmish #3, My scout #1, My reinforcement #1, Your scout #1

So in Skirmish #1 it is my turn. In Skirmish #2 and Skirmish #3 it is your turn. Within the larger field of "Game turn".

So all at once we do this:

Skirmish #1 my turn, Skirmish #2 and #3, your turn. I move my scouts and reinforcements, you move your scouts. Say you actually move your scout into Skirmish #3.

Now it is the next game turn.

So Skirmish #1 your turn, Skirmish #2 and #3, my turn, which means I can shoot at what was once your scout. Meanwhile I also get to move my scouts and reinforcements again, say my reinforcement joins #3.

and so on ....

http://www.classicbattletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,41022.0.html

I´m glad that you have discovered btech but I´m afraid that Battleforce might not be what you are looking for. In btech you control the individual mech while in bforce the minimun unit is the mech lance.
It´s a little bit like 40k and Epic like HMBC mentioned.

Another option if you want to play online it´s to dl megamek, the online version of the tabletop game. But anyway enjoy the classic btech forums you´ll find quite a few nutcases that try to push the limits to unexected and quite funny results.

M.

hmm I am pretty excited about trying my "three games at once with scouts/ reinforcements" thing. Call me crazy.

My brother and I played a couple games and they went pretty fast.