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There is always the Iron Wind range
https://www.ironwindmetals.com/index.php/categories/cat-battletech
Keep in mind though that these are not really scaled against either each other or the Force Pack Mechs, they are metal and they don't come cheap.
Otherwise 3D printing if available to you might provide an alternative.

Great paintjob BTW.

Generally speaking... not yet, at least not officially. There's a Handbook in the works that supposed to help with unit organization, and may include some general scenarios.

There are quite a few "historical" scenario packs around, but they aren't always balanced affairs. There are a few objective packs that have been set up by a few groups like Wolfdragoons.com provide. My local group has a standard scenario when we aren't trying to do anything fancy borrowed from the old MechClix Dark Age tournament scene.

As for Vehicles and Infantry, there are several different sources. Battletech is pretty proxy-friendly (aside from some very specific instances). Officially speaking, Ironwind Metals and Ral Partha Europe handle most of the official metal models that can date back up to 30 or 40 years in some cases. CGL just did a kickstarter to launch new vehicle lines and has been shipping out over the last 2 months or so, and should be reaching local distributors before December (hopefully).

Dropzone Commander models are pretty close in size to be useable with Battletech (I've used my Shaltari hovertanks a few times), but the Infantry really need to be rebased.

Another company made a game called Solar Rift whose models are compatible with Battletech. Another company called Metalcore Collectables also makes their 3D printed stuff that's pretty compatible with Battletech, too.

There's a pretty big 3D printing scene out there, if you don't mind not being completely official.

Thank you for the suggestions regarding vehicles and infantry, I will definitely check them out. For me just having mechs on the battlefield makes me lose the sense of scale, having infantry on the table will give a good reference point. I tried putting some 6mm historical miniatures next to mechs then you realize how big they really are. Just need to get some sci-fi infantry I don't think pike and shotte era infantry will work .

We had a pre-planned battle, 3050 clan invasion era with "upgraded" helm memory core variant inner sphere mechs.

The table was the urban city/airfield.







The clan forces-
.dire wolf
.warhawk
.timber wolf
.summoner
.storm crow

The IS force consisted of an assault lance and a heavy lance.

assault lance
.battle master
.goliath
.stalker
.marauder

The support striker lance-
.axeman
.thunderbolt
.blackjack
.phoenix hawk

The inner sphere forces started out pretty strong, but the table started to quickly turn. the first casualty was the battle master taking an ERPPC to the face.

By the end we had the thunderbolt and a phoenix hawk left facing off against a summoner, dire wolf and timber wolf.

The IS force thought better of their situation and lived to fight another day, after being granted hegira-

Added some new shiny to my second swords of light.

the unit special rules allow the lance to use 1 clan mech or 1 mech with clan equipped weapons. so i added the signature direwolf hohiro to my force, along side an awesome, archer and wolverine.

My opponent brought a nightstar, goliath, archer, hunchback.

It turned out to be an explosive game with the hunchies running right up on my dire wolf and archer. it got deleted but also exploded killing the pilot of the dire wolf and vaporizing the archer in the collateral damage.

all i had left facing the night star and archer was my wolverine. i managed to critically damage the archer. so his remaining 2 mechs decided to flee instead of trying to deal with the high mobility target of the wolverine.

Second game out running the hohiro in my kurita lance. up against the age old foe house davion.

We use forced withdrawal rules and quickly started sending mechs home with critical damage. first we traded a warhammer for a rifleman, and then an annihilator for an awesome.

He got ahead on me taking down my archer. then my hohiro took down the templar. and got into a MAD fire fight with the orion.

a pretty equal game all around.

Finally finished painting the Mercenary Box Mechs.

Lance 1:

Lance 2:

Did a quick test game with an MRM heavy C3 land for my swords of light, (just got the crusader from my friend so it is not painted).


My force-
.shugenja
.sunder
.catapult
.crusader

My opponent
.atlas
.banshee
.night star
.archer

I ended up facing a Steiner assault lance. it began well with critical damage removing the nigh tstar. but it turned south for me when i started missing shots that should have been easy.

in the end a slew of crits left me with only the crusader facing an undamaged atlas and a heavily damaged banshee.

Got a rematch in with the Steiner lance form last week. this time i countered him with a kurita assault lance-

.dire wolf hohiro
.sunder
.orochi
.catapult-Jester (yes the hero mech loadout from MWO).


This game went much better for me. the Jester smoked the enemy banshee in one go with multiple critical hits. after i took down his atlas he decided the fight was not going in his favor and withdrew.





Next up i teamed up with the davions to fight some nova cats. i brought the C3 MRM heavy lance from the previous week, i managed to score 2 kills. my team mate only scored one giving the clans a narrow victory. with only a badly damaged madcat MKII and huntsman left on the table.






We also took it to space with some federated suns navy attempting to stop a clan task group in aerotech 2.

As the saying goes-don't get on the bad side of a Mckenna......which means the broadside.

I lost the destroyer and conqueror. and took some serious damage on the Mckenna but the Liberator was untouched. in exchange i destroyed his entire force.

Finished up the last box I got from the Mercenaries Kickstarter deployment.

Behold the Assault Lance!

And a comparison shot of the new CGL Goliath with 2 IWM Goliaths, because just one lance is boring.

This one was a bitter fight till the end.

My force-
.blood asp
.blood kite
.turkina
.super nova
.warhawk

My opponent

-lance 1
.gunslinger
.awesome
.banshee
.goliath

-lance 2
.atlas
.nightstar
.stalker
.battle master

The beginning was very much a slug match as we started whittling each other down.

i lost the super nova first from center torso damage. i traded him for a banshee and the goliath.

near the end i had him down to the gunslinger and awesome.....he got a couple really lucky shots in and then i was down to the asp VS his gunslinger. he scored a win with a headshot gauss.

The 2 turns prior to that the asp used his ERPPCs to decapitate both the stlas and awesome...and the warhawk did the same to the nightstar.







p.s. @Charistoph

Throw a wash on those and they will look so much better

 aphyon wrote:
p.s. @Charistoph

Throw a wash on those and they will look so much better

I have, and I don't think so. I like them better this way.

Did a thematic battle this week, Some davions came knocking on the 2nd derions home turf in the mountains and paid for it in broken mechs.

My side-
.wolverine
.scorpion
.raijin
.komodo

The other side-
.blackjack
.centurion
.enforcer
.trebuchet






I walked off with all my mechs intact, the other side had none.


Kurita 4/0 davion.

Afternoon - just dropping in with a quick question.

GF9's Hextech terrain - is that the right scale for Battletech, and is it better suited for normal or Alpha Strike?

 Dysartes wrote:
Afternoon - just dropping in with a quick question.

GF9's Hextech terrain - is that the right scale for Battletech, and is it better suited for normal or Alpha Strike?

It's perfect for regular BattleTech, but can be used for AlphaStrike as well.

Well, it's worth noting that Magic Madhouse have some of it in their sale at the moment.

The nifty bit about AlphaStrike is that you can play hex free... which made me feel bad that Wiccans weren't allowed to play AlphaStrike.




I'm my own best audience sometimes...

The great news about battle tech is you can play it any way you like with or without any rules/optional rules you like.

I play 3d terrain rules and have been loving it ever since i switched, however i am not a fan of alpha strike as it is to simple for me as a fan of battle tech as it removes far to much of what i love about the game.


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Things didn't go so well for kurita this time out. we did a couple heavy lance. with his ECM pretty well winning the game for him. ghost targeting making it nearly impossible to hit him-

in the end i only put down his warhammer, and i lost everything but my black hawk KU-

My force-
.crusader
.catapult
.black hawk KU
.komodo

HIs force-
.warhammer
.thunderbolt
.penetrator
.marauder

Still gorging myself on the fluff, still quietly collecting stuff, may host an Urbie Derbie at some point.

Not a gambler, but when a batch of blind boxes popped up for sale here, couldn't resist. 😅 Quite pleased with getting a Black Knight, Shadow Cat and KING CRAB, which will be going to a fellow MW5 player, as the KGC-CAR Carapace is his ride of choice.

i know the feeling, even though i have had hundreds of mechs for decades...sometimes you just need another atlas....or a marauder II

Just painted these up-some fortress miniatures used single re-sales.
10th lyran guard and 2nd swords.

All finished with the Alpha Strike boxset, mixed between Coromodir Corsairs and my Hell's Horses colors:

Star:

Lance 1:

Lance 2:

No harm in having another Atlas alright. Still need to finish mine at some point and see if I want to apply that scheme to the mercenary company as a whole. Also need to get started on that King Crab, want to try and paint it up in the "Carapace" paint scheme as seen in MW5.

So far though, quite pleased with what I got:



The three starter set mechs have seen the most game time so far, the Wolverine being a favourite of one of my club members, while I've been enjoying the Griffin a lot myself, maybe have to get another one and paint it in my own colours at some point.

Will say, painting up the Urbies in various schemes has been a lot of fun and a great excuse to finally start messing around with Tamiya's panel liner and clear paints for once. And not just for quick cockpit windows either, quite like how Cherry, the R27 turned out. Favourite still is Large Ricky and his rotary AC.

Wolverine is one of those mechs where it is hard to find a bad one, unlike the mauler where it is hard to find a good one.

The atlas problem for me is i already have an old metal one that is painted to be part of my Lyran desert lance with a heavy gauss. i needed a kurita one for my C3 dragon lance so i could run the meme.






The marauder II is for my marauder chassi lance-

nightstar, marauder II, marauder, dragon fire

 BrookM wrote:
No harm in having another Atlas alright.

I currently have 3 (not including the II), and the only time any of them has seen table play is under someone else's control. I have other Assaults I prefer, especially since I need them to have more long range firepower, more speed, or more maneuverability.

Right now we're mostly playing with mech sheets from the Star League era, so the GRF-1N and WVR-6R, light on everything, easier to learn the rules with hehe. But at some point we'll be moving the clock forward for sure.

Can't comment on what's good or not haha, I go with rule of cool for the most part, am really looking forward to adding a Charger 1A1 to the collection, because Tex really sold me on the idea that any Mech, no matter how bad, can be of some use when push comes to shove.

My own personal, unexplained favourite Mech is the Archer, maybe because of MW5, where I went from a Rifleman that get shot out from under me in record time, to a regular Archer to getting a hero version that our resident tech turned into an SRM brawler, because it also has fists, punching is so underrated. But somehow, I've got three Archers in my collection, once I find a colour scheme I like, I am turning one of them into my personal ride for sure.

if you want the brawler archer you need the

ARC-4M Archer Ismail
Personal 'Mech of Lieutenant James Ismail of the Lexington Combat Group's 180th Dragoon Combat Group has been refit for close combat. This is achieved by dropping both the Artemis-enhanced LRM-20s for eight SRM-4 launchers, four per torso, while the two rear facing medium lasers are also removed for two forward facing medium pulse lasers.


Then load it with tandem charge SRMs...ouch

 BrookM wrote:

My own personal, unexplained favourite Mech is the Archer, maybe because of MW5, where I went from a Rifleman that get shot out from under me in record time, to a regular Archer to getting a hero version that our resident tech turned into an SRM brawler, because it also has fists, punching is so underrated. But somehow, I've got three Archers in my collection, once I find a colour scheme I like, I am turning one of them into my personal ride for sure.

Yeah, I've managed to acquire 3 Archers over the course of collecting the boxes and Forcepacks. The most recent being the one in the Alpha Strike box. I have a hard time recommending one or the other as we don't always use the same Era or tech level in our games.

Figuring out schemes to work with can be hard at times. For me, I like to have a story go along with it, or it's based on what paints I've collected, and I think are interesting.

For example, originally I was going to go with a drab green as a good Merc like the Eridani Light Horse. That can be a bit boring, though, and then I came across Tex and his Black Pants Legion. I was reminded of a skit from when I was a kid about a captain who would wear a red jacket when going in to battle so that when he was wounded his blood wouldn't show. Then they came across a really big ship and he asked for his brown pants. So, adding in a "brown pants" to my camo green scheme it became my default Inner Sphere scheme, the Brown Pants Legion. It also makes sense as it it would also match trees with a brown base and green leaves. The Archer below was one of the first plastic models I painted like this. I've since added either flesh, yellow, or golden brown accents to the scheme.

The middle one shown below is based on a campaign I've been playing for over 3 years now. We finally chose a name, the Coromodir Corsairs, and one of the guys decided it should be like the Jolly Rogers or Skull Squadron from Macross. I can't do stripes that tightly, so my tends to be a broad yellow section up the torso and head, with black side torsos, and white limbs. I started feeling that was boring, so I added black hands, feet, and knees, and then added accent markings on the limbs.

The one on the left is my newest scheme to represent Hell's Horses. Originally, I was going to do Delta Galaxy with a desert-striped scheme. I got nervous about doing that, so I compromised with going with a light black core, burnt sienna upper limbs and head, and light golden brown for the lower limbs to indicate a fire. Jade is used as accents to break up monotony.


My Warhammers have been able to be more eclectic. The Corsair Warhammer getting red accents on the limbs for Beta Battalion.

The Warhammer that came in the Highlander box was given my evil "Wobbie" scheme. Using a carapace color as a main armor overlay. I used a castle gray for feet and sub spaces around the parts, with using yellow to accent points. I also use an interesting technique for the green, basically putting white or bright light gray underneath and then washing it with a green wash. I've taken to calling them my "Fetid Claws" group due to the vertigras on the lower Arms.

The IWM Warhammer IIC on the right was my first Clan scheme, trying to capture a color style reminscant of the Cloud Cobra (species). Dark sea blue up top with purple for the waist and legs. A scheme I kept up with for all my IWM models (until I started doing Hell's Horses).

It was feeling too dark, so when I started getting plastics, I reversed it, going with the purple up top and the dark sea blue on the bottom. I also started adding in blue (either medium or light) for accent points.

I like that in this setting as well you can have Mechs look like professional military hardware in camo and drabs, or make them as colourful and garish as you like and it will work either way. Thanks for sharing the inspiration! 🤘🏻

Do like the idea of turning the Archer into a sandblaster with that many SRM launchers. Is there a place or site where mech building can be done easily?

Also, haha, I love how some mechs just have rear-facing weapons, highly situational, but still a weirdly cool detail.

 BrookM wrote:
Do like the idea of turning the Archer into a sandblaster with that many SRM launchers. Is there a place or site where mech building can be done easily?

I'm not sure about a site that can do customization. I know there is Flech's Sheets and Mordel.net that offer Record Sheets, but I don't use them, personally, so I don't know about their customization capacity.

MechFactory also offers Record Sheets online, but any unit editing is done on their Android App, sorry Apple users.

My usual go to involves installing Java to run either Solaris SkunkWerks (best UI, but not the most up to date, only does Mechs and Tanks) or MegaMekLab (UI is wanting, but it is the most up to date and one can build anything one would care to use).

 BrookM wrote:
Also, haha, I love how some mechs just have rear-facing weapons, highly situational, but still a weirdly cool detail.

Some can really use them. The Atlas isn't a Mech that can easily maneuver, so having rear-firing weapons can be somewhat helpful (+2 for Rear Secondary Target is less so). The Archer is usually supposed to be focusing their LRM racks forward, so shooting a Light to their Rear with them is counter-productive (particularly with the LRM minimum range). Things like that.

The funniest one is the Falcon, though. Medium Laser and Small Lasers in the Arms, but Machine Guns facing out of the Rear Torsos. Why, Wolf Dragoon Sourcebook writer? Why?

Thanks! 👊🏻 Modifying mechs to suit my own needs is something I am going to be looking into for sure at some point, but baby steps, only got my copy of the Mech Manual earlier this week. 😅

And speaking of Warhammer mechs:



Don't know when I'll find the time for this one, but after getting the BT bug good and proper, I couldn't resist. It'll make for a display piece at some point.