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Come on now, that isn't necessary. We don't need to get a thread locked because of flame wars. Battletech threads on this site are few and far between. It's nice to see them, though it would be nicer if it didn't involve who said what to who. I appreciate the defense, we don't want this thread locked.

Thanks!

This thread has drawn a lot of bad behavior. I would second Astaroth's appeal for polite discussion and am willing to leave this thread open as it is rather rare to get Battletech news around here. But the thread is on warning and those of you who have been stirring it can consider yourselves warned as well.

Apologize. I didn't like seeing someone attacking someone else's dad, but I guess I didn't have to be rude as a response to rudeness either...

anyways back to battletech, i looked close at the figs in the above pictures and some of them don't seem bad at all. I don't like the Atlas it looks spindley, and the panther's head is kind of huge, clint and dervish are on the small side next to mechs that are supposedly smaller than them, but most of the others look pretty good to me. last btech minis i got in a box were the 14 unseens back in the mid 90s, and the 8 horrible ones that came in citytech.

Does anyone remember 'plastech'.. FASAs own attempt at plastic minis. I still have some of those and I have pulled them out for a laugh at games.

yeenoghu wrote:Does anyone remember 'plastech'...

One painted conservatively, the other in checker-tastic 1980's GW style. Totally rad.

Friend of mine has a few of those floating around. The Catapults are HUGE. They're good for filling in the last few slots if you need a lot of the same 'Mech and have already used your two plastic, and both your old metal and new metal Atlases.

I actually like the Plastech Atlas better than the Ral Partha one. The Catapult is pretty damn funny though. Yeah it's pretty obvious what it's supposed to be.

yeenoghu wrote:

Does anyone remember 'plastech'.. FASAs own attempt at plastic minis. I still have some of those and I have pulled them out for a laugh at games.

My friends and I used to love the old Plastech boxed set. Our little middle school group of 5 players each bought a set for use in our games. A couple of us even bought additional sets from Virtual World when they ran a sale on slow moving Btech merchandise.

The Panther was my favorite from that set. It certainly beat the pants off the crappy jumping Panther currently for sale from IWM.

yeenoghu wrote:I actually like the Plastech Atlas better than the Ral Partha one.

You mean the original Ral Partha metal right, not the re-sculpt that IWM sells now. The current one, while being a bit of a pain to put together (then again, most IWM models are designed about as illogically as some of GW's models), looks great and is nice and tall.

Ah PlasTech. Home of the Fatlas and Fatapult. I remember them well. I sold off mine with the rest of my plastics a couple years ago.

You sold off your plastics? Even the CityTech 2 stuff? Even the plastic unseen (of which I only have one... a Warhammer... )?

Heh, on the Plastech 'Mechs, anybody else remember the Valkyrie that wasn't even on the base correctly? It was facing one of the points of the hex it was on rather than the flat edge. How in the world did that one make it passed inspection? I seem to have misplaced one of my "Fatlas" plastics. I've got all of those back in '90. A buddy of mine turned most of those into conversions, and good ones at that. Much easier to hack at plastic than metal.

Back then, 89-90 we didn't know how to play really, and though that LRM20s always hit with all the missiles, and in the same location! Dad heard my buddy and I play, and the construction aspect of the game sounded pretty cool. My first real game was with Dad. he and I played with the two cardboard pink Locusts, with 4/6 pilots and neither one of us had the guts to close in with our machine guns. That game lasted almost 3 hours as we never hit each other and kept referring to the rulebook. Oh those were the days!

How did I miss this thread?

I totaly have to buy a set. I have a pile of old rules and models from what feels like 2 different versions. This would actually let me play using consistant rules.

One of my fave all time games, I have all my Battletech stuff on the shelf next to my as I type this. Though a painter I never played Btech with miniatures only with the cardboard.

Also play Battleforce a bit as well.

This thread has made me get in touch with my old Btech buddies to sort a game, so thanks!

Hopefully there might be more threads about Battletech now...

Mick )

Battletech iz r0XX0R

The ones that come in the Intro box and 25th Aniv Intro box (yes its the same ones except for the 2 premiums) arent very good, but they are useable. For the money you get a great selection of mechs to get started with, along with the rule/fluff books. A basic paint job and the plastics arent too bad. Gives a good rank and file set, allows you to spend your $$ on the cooler metals to fill it all in.

Wow I am pretty stoked about this. I just sent some text messages to some buddies of mine that used to play Battletech with me. This is going to be sweet!

Started a Battletech thread on the mech part of the forum...

Mick

This thread made me hunt out some old stuff - including the first edition battletech and citytech boxsets, man that was a blast from the past.

H.B.M.C. wrote:You sold off your plastics? Even the CityTech 2 stuff? Even the plastic unseen (of which I only have one... a Warhammer... )?

Yeah. When I have metals of all of them, I didn't need the plastics any more.

They went to a group of new players, so don't feel bad. They got 80 some plastic 'Mechs for $100 or something similar.

I used to play BattleTech WAAAY back when, with the cardboard figures and played the different varients, (Battletech, Mechwarrior RPG, Mercenaries, Aerotech) had a good time, awesome stories and fluff. Then the Clans invdaded. I didn't play too much after that, and now at the game store, a very few people play it, and I'm tempted to go back. But, since I've dropped over $200 on WH40k stuff, it's going to be a while before I make another game purchase.


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Wildstorm wrote:Sigh, no Warhammer, Archer, or Battlemaster. Yes, yes, I know why we will never see them again (dang copyright wars) but those were always my favorite Mechs.

My favorites were the Warhammer, Thunderbolt, and Rifleman...I was a distance player.

As far as LAMs go...that should be a no brainer...they need to stay in Robotech.

Still have my Plastech 'Mechs, the plastic unseen ones that came in a box set by themselves (Warhammer, Maruader, ect...) The same exact ones also came in the 3rd ed box set. I got the ones that came in the 4th box set with the Clan and Inner Sphere too. I've also got DOZENS of 'Mechs, many unseen and lead still in blister packs. Haven't painted half of my other ones I've built and converted too. It's just multiple shelves in my game room full of gleaming metal. Pretty depressing really.

Purple Pawns has a nice breakdown of the box contents and a unboxing video: http://www.purplepawn.com/2011/03/hands-on-battletech-25th-anniversary-boxed-set/

Sounds even better! 15 days and counting.

I'm gonna have to get the box. Brings back alot of memories.

Anywhere in UK selling this?

UltraPrime wrote:Anywhere in UK selling this?

Any non-GW game store should at the least be able to order it for you.

In the least there are UK websites that will have it. For example Amazon UK, is supposed to eventually have it.

Lord_Astaroth wrote:I've also got DOZENS of 'Mechs, many unseen and lead still in blister packs. Haven't painted half of my other ones I've built and converted too. It's just multiple shelves in my game room full of gleaming metal. Pretty depressing really.

You could probably make a quite large amount on those...esp the unseens like Marauder, Battlemaster, Griffin, Shadowhawk, etc.

Not having played in... the better part of two decades, I have to say I'm pretty excited about this and will probably pick up two of them, next month.

I'm really excited about getting this when it comes out. I already have friends who have played it before, too, so double exited I guess.