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Albany, NY

The Atlas variants are great, looking forward to trying some. At the end of the RG series, I think my most wanted new design mini is the updated Goliath. That thing is so dang nice. After that, I really hope we get the Ost series mechs as new minis.

   
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Spent a few hours last night transcribing most of the new Rec Guides into Solaris Skunk Works. I can't get the GRN-D-01-X Grand Crusader to work. It comes up as 1 ton overweight.

BrianDavion wrote:
- Skinwalker (Ryoken III) this includes some intreasting new fluff
I'm not all that familiar with this one. What makes it interesting?

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"GW really needs to understand 'Less is more' when it comes to AoS." - Wha-Mu-077

 
   
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Albany, NY

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Spent a few hours last night transcribing most of the new Rec Guides into Solaris Skunk Works. I can't get the GRN-D-01-X Grand Crusader to work. It comes up as 1 ton overweight.

BrianDavion wrote:
- Skinwalker (Ryoken III) this includes some intreasting new fluff
I'm not all that familiar with this one. What makes it interesting?


Probably the new piloting interface? It's a new paradigm of BattleMech technology, like a full-size Protomech. The bits about re-skinning regular Ryoken IIIs to look like Skinwalkers to attract attention from enemy forces wanting to salvage one for the new tech was fun.

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 Prometheum5 wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Spent a few hours last night transcribing most of the new Rec Guides into Solaris Skunk Works. I can't get the GRN-D-01-X Grand Crusader to work. It comes up as 1 ton overweight.

BrianDavion wrote:
- Skinwalker (Ryoken III) this includes some intreasting new fluff
I'm not all that familiar with this one. What makes it interesting?


Probably the new piloting interface? It's a new paradigm of BattleMech technology, like a full-size Protomech. The bits about re-skinning regular Ryoken IIIs to look like Skinwalkers to attract attention from enemy forces wanting to salvage one for the new tech was fun.


well that in itself isn't intreasting as the skinwalker was included in an earlier experimental TRO. whats intreasting is the single skinwalker running through the FS and DC hunting a missing jumpship.

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Florence, KY

 Prometheum5 wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Spent a few hours last night transcribing most of the new Rec Guides into Solaris Skunk Works. I can't get the GRN-D-01-X Grand Crusader to work. It comes up as 1 ton overweight.

BrianDavion wrote:
- Skinwalker (Ryoken III) this includes some intreasting new fluff
I'm not all that familiar with this one. What makes it interesting?


Probably the new piloting interface? It's a new paradigm of BattleMech technology, like a full-size Protomech. The bits about re-skinning regular Ryoken IIIs to look like Skinwalkers to attract attention from enemy forces wanting to salvage one for the new tech was fun.

According to this post on the BattleTech forums it was also used to fix a few inconsistencies in 'Hour of the Wolf':

Jal Phoenix wrote:Yes, the Stormcrows masquerading as Skinwalkers was a deliberate attempt to address the way they were used in Hour. It also played well into the line in the Skinwalker's entry in XTRO Republic III about Devlin Stone making the capture of a Skinwalker a high priority. It just worked out.

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

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CL VI Store in at the Cyber Center of Excellence

Anyone else have the Battle for Turkayid book missing from their Wave 2 shipment?

(yeah, I suspect it is spelled wrong).

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Sorry if this pic doesn't work, but... whoa:



This is from Catalyst's FB page, along with the following caption:

"And another BattleTech playtest of maps, variants and the Tactical App underway!"

Just look at that map sheet!

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That app will be gold.
   
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Albany, NY

Wow the new urban maps are looking incredible. Interesting to see the shift in scale from the CityTech setup I just ran, looks great with all the room to maneuver and larger building footprints.

   
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The Land of the Rising Sun

Really lovely maps. CityTech was more of a US town on the middle of nowhere style than the huge megalopolis we all picture when we think Btech.

M.

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Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.

About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though." 
   
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Of course there are some BTech maps that have massive cities in them - not just the ones you put the counters on top of - and those buildings are pretty big.

This looks like that, only with more variety and vastly better graphics (including shadows!).

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North Wales

Wow, just noticed those shadows - very clever!

Looks like I'll be able to recreate the urban battles that I've always dreamed of doing just like in Close Quarters. The old Citytech definitely did have that town in a desert thing going on.
   
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Topps was brought by Fanatics. Doubt that will have any inpact on Catalyst Games Lab.

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The Great State of New Jersey

Not immediately, long term whenever that license comes up for renewal could be a different story.

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..."Fanatics" as in the name of a company, right, not actual fanatics? Just to be sure ^_^
   
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Florence, KY

 Albertorius wrote:
..."Fanatics" as in the name of a company, right, not actual fanatics? Just to be sure ^_^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanatics_(sports_retailer)

'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents
cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable
defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'

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Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
 
   
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I can't see it having much impact. I mean it's basicly just a passive revenue stream at this moment

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UK






Model size is about 14" by 14" tall

wonder if this might work as a drop ship

 
   
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Albany, NY

Absolutely! Fill the gap and swap the maneuvering thrusters for some weapon blisters and it's perfect. Just have to figure out what ships it's the right size for.

   
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United Kingdom

New record sheets:
Wave 2 ForcePacks
Wolf’s Dragoons ForcePack

Spotlight On: Hellion Keshik
Price: $3.99, PDF

Death From Above. No words better describe Hellion Keshik, the bodyguard Trinary for Clan Goliath Scorpion’s saKhan. Few formations conjure terror amongst their enemies more than this assemblage of warriors. Forged from tattered remnants of two Clans, one Absorbed and the other Abjured, Hellion Keshik welded their disparate philosophies into one. As the tip of the spear for Hellion Galaxy, the Keshik does more than protect the saKhan. These warriors train endlessly and fight savagely like no others in the Scorpion Touman. The Keshik has never tasted defeat, because victory is so sweet.

Spotlight On: Hellion Keshik includes a Unit History, Personalities, Personnel Rosters, Mission Tracks, and data for use with all scales of BattleTech play.

Catalyst Game Labs web store: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-spotlight-on-hellion-keshik

DriveThruRPG: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/371624/BattleTech-Spotlight-On-Hellion-Keshik
   
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Kinda humorous to me that despite being the variant used for the Model and the Datasheet's picture the Banshee 3S doesn't have a sheet in that book of sheets.

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Apparently, the premium plastic Clanbuster Black Knight and Stormcrow are going away for the time being. The Black Knight is available on Catalyst's store:

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/black-knight-variant-miniature?fbclid=IwAR38rs3qT6ThIlgx1ZUyJcxFRAO9uTi6mPSCwSlvIgMrxODMR7UkTIjCZ1I

Blurb from the store listing:

NOTE: This item will be discontinued after this release, as the manufacturer has shifted away from its previous plans. Future premiums are being re-sourced.

   
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 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Kinda humorous to me that despite being the variant used for the Model and the Datasheet's picture the Banshee 3S doesn't have a sheet in that book of sheets.


Technically the Banshee mini is a 5S, not a 3S.
   
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Where ever the Emperor needs his eyes

Maybe according to the older information. The 5S, as it stands now in the new record sheets, now has its weapons shuffled around, namely that all the heavy hitting weapons are divided between the two torso. So the 3S would be what the model is.

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United Kingdom

For those in the USA: Barnes & Noble are getting Blind Salvage Boxes

Spoiler:
   
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Mississippi

...and already out of stock.

It never ends well 
   
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Biloxi, MS USA

 Stormonu wrote:
...and already out of stock.


They were never in stock online. That listing is new as of yesterday and has been listed as Out of Stock since put up.

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The Land of the Rising Sun

I need Catalyst to start offering single boxes or lance packs with PHawks and bug mechs pronto.

M.

Jenkins: You don't have jurisdiction here!
Smith Jamison: We aren't here, which means when we open up on you and shred your bodies with automatic fire then this will never have happened.

About the Clans: "Those brief outbursts of sense can't hold back the wave of sibko bred, over hormoned sociopaths that they crank out though." 
   
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United Kingdom

 Platuan4th wrote:
 Stormonu wrote:
...and already out of stock.


They were never in stock online. That listing is new as of yesterday and has been listed as Out of Stock since put up.



Currently not available online but should be at your local store
   
 
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