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As stated above put on a demo game didnt get any sign ons but got lots of questions and people excited about joining our merry band of mech warriors enjoy Also finally got the real rules for minefields that poor Dragon mech and a picture of my Dalmatian for kicks he is eating a steak bone i believe

Nice to see some battletech action. Been trying to get some stuff organized down here since My last group fell apart. Never played it miniatures style as I like using maps but I would like to do games with the x-large hexboards with terrain and levels making it look nice I just have nowhere to put stuff like that atm.

Never care for the map sheets always played on big boards my uncle made and he always insisted if you do proper line of site its the same game but i want a nice hex map board just to help out or outline mine with dotted hexes would we awesome thanks for the reply. Wondering if anyone even cared for Battletech any more. Also WE ARE NOT JUST A MISC GAME i do not understand why the mech/naval/driving games got the cold shoulder !

We just start a Battletech night at the store were I play. It's been fun jumping right behind mechs and off loading all my lasers.
Hope it takes off in your area aswell.

grasshopper-deceptively one of the best mechs in 3025

DAVION FO LIFE!

How does one play without map sheets? I am the interest.

Surtur wrote:How does one play without map sheets? I am the interest.

Using terrain?

The "normal" way as described by CGL doubles ranges and movement. You can print out 'Mechs sheets that way. You need area terrain for trees and such. True LOS, where partial cover is what you can't see instead of just a hill covering the legs.

Other than a couple little things for movement, it isn't that different from the mapsheet, but it is a lot more flexible and looks much better.

I mean how do you determine arcs, turning, distance and all that.

Some editions of the Battletech rules have miniature rules in them... I vaguely remember arcs are based off the hex base sides, as can be turning and such.

Surtur wrote:I mean how do you determine arcs, turning, distance and all that.

Arcs are based off of the hex base, it is kinda hard to describe without a hex base handy, but very easy to understand if you do.

Turning is still done by hex sides. You can turn less than a full hex side.

It is very important for a 'Mech to be on a proper hex base for it to work in minis rules.

Ive actually never played using the open terrain rules. When I started playing we used maps. Ive played on very large hex (4 inch IIRC) foam terrain that was in my old LGS.

I have a few pics in my gallery of Battletech on Heroscape terrain...which is plastic hex terrain, hexes are about 1 1/2 inches. It works perfectly.

Mad4Minis wrote:Ive actually never played using the open terrain rules. When I started playing we used maps. Ive played on very large hex (4 inch IIRC) foam terrain that was in my old LGS.

I have a few pics in my gallery of Battletech on Heroscape terrain...which is plastic hex terrain, hexes are about 1 1/2 inches. It works perfectly.

I half a metric crapload and a half of HeroScape just for those purposes. I just wish it took less than a couple hours to set up a good sized field. And taking it down is even worse...

Thanks for all the responses i got a bit more Battletech Action for yall haha this was a game where we used rule from Tac Operations for Lighting strikes which we just called Orbital Bombardment Lots of chaos more pics to come. As far as 3-D Terrain we just prefer it and any distance issues we just round it as appropriate are bases are actually cut from the 25th set map sheets so very few issues

Mattlov wrote:

Mad4Minis wrote:Ive actually never played using the open terrain rules. When I started playing we used maps. Ive played on very large hex (4 inch IIRC) foam terrain that was in my old LGS.

I have a few pics in my gallery of Battletech on Heroscape terrain...which is plastic hex terrain, hexes are about 1 1/2 inches. It works perfectly.

I half a metric crapload and a half of HeroScape just for those purposes. I just wish it took less than a couple hours to set up a good sized field. And taking it down is even worse...

I hear ya on that. The wife and I had a game of Heroscape this weekend. Im thinking of trying it with regular wargaming terrain...just substituting inches for the hex spaces.