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wow thats a big list

All 24 'Mechs in the Intro Box.

Wait until you see the mind-boggling list of EVERY canon 'Mechs variant. We should be at about 2000 or so now.

That doesn't include vehicles, infantry, AeroFighters, DropShips, WarShips...

The old Force Faction Table pdf weighs in at 121 pages!

And it's out of date and they're updating it still. Big project. Should hopefully be very cool when it comes out.

How much of the following are included in BT?

1) Screaming
2) Pointing
3) Baldness (In the Grim Darkness of the far future, there is only Alopecia!)
4) SKULLZ!

I provide you with:

PRECENTOR PANTSLESS!!!!!!!!!!

That's about as close as you get to pointing, screaming bald men. And skulls show up, usually on pirate units (ARR!).

Well I'm glad I got into this game. Now I need to convence my friends to play it.....

Well, the Atlas has a skull like head and there's of course the SKULL MECH!!!! http://www.camospecs.com/MiniList.asp?Action=Detail&ID=91

More 'Punisher', less 'Skull', for my tastes. Nevertheless, the Ursus is a pretty good 'Mech, and if you did see a giant walking skull coming towards you you'd be pretty worried!

It might be my age but I dont like include much beyond 3050 and try to stick to 3025-3026 for spheroid factions, plus refits. I never liked 2750 much either.

Frankly the vast majority of later designs just look crap, with a few notable exceptions. Give me 3025 or Clan invasion force anyday.

Orlanth wrote:It might be my age but I dont like include much beyond 3050 and try to stick to 3025-3026 for spheroid factions, plus refits. I never liked 2750 much either.

Frankly the vast majority of later designs just look crap, with a few notable exceptions. Give me 3025 or Clan invasion force anyday.

Nothing wrong with that! I love a good 3025 game. Most fun there is in Battletech.

clan invasion looks good.

I like 3025/Clan Invasion. Those are the mechs I know and love...Especially the old Unseen *pouts*

Clan Invasion era can get a little unbalanced. It's better if you want to play Clan vs. Inner Sphere to play either the Civil War or Jihad eras.

Although I love Btech, I refuse wholeheartedly to play/acknowledge the Civil War and Jihad Eras.


Also, I wish I could find some other people besides my friends in this city that played some Btech.

Where are you in Oklahoma?

Mattlov wrote:Where are you in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma City.

As are all of my friends that play Btech.


Right now, we're currently talking about starting a campaign. If we can just get a workable economy.

Rmemeber if you play on mapsheets you don't NEED any minis. Battletech is NOT a WYSIWYG game, anything you can pu ton the mapsheet that is identifiable and has a facing is good enough.

sqir666 wrote:Although I love Btech, I refuse wholeheartedly to play/acknowledge the Civil War and Jihad Eras.

Ditto here. 3055 I can deal with...Anything after that, bah. I don't even like heavy lasers/pseudo-mecha/MRM's, etc...

skyth wrote:

sqir666 wrote:Although I love Btech, I refuse wholeheartedly to play/acknowledge the Civil War and Jihad Eras.

Ditto here. 3055 I can deal with...Anything after that, bah. I don't even like heavy lasers/pseudo-mecha/MRM's, etc...

That's pretty much I don't like those Eras. The other reason why I don't like those Eras, please read the fiction for those Eras and then please tell me what happened to the Clans.

Because everytime I read the fiction for the Civil War/Jihad Eras, I always ask myself these important questions; why aren't the Clans restarting the invasion when the truce ends?Also, why did they just disappear from the Univerese?

Though, maybe that's just me.

sqir666 wrote:
Because everytime I read the fiction for the Civil War/Jihad Eras, I always ask myself these important questions; why aren't the Clans restarting the invasion when the truce ends?Also, why did they just disappear from the Univerese?

Though, maybe that's just me.

The Great Refusal binds them to the non-invasion (except for the Wolves) set in the terms of those engagements. Since they lost, they are honor bound to agree to it.

Not reading the Jihad era you are missing out on the beatdown the Clans are giving to the Word of Blake AND each other.

I like the clans. Aslo, I'm poasting.

H.B.M.C. wrote:BattleTech is a game written by people who care about making a good game.

40K is a game written by people who care about selling models.

QFT, except that it might be said that 40k "is a game written by people who care about selling good models."

In regards to a page 2 post about the Dragon Fire mech......

Say what?!!!

And here I thought my universe got skewed with dickgirls, now there's dickmechs!!

They probably have their own share of fans though.

BAWTRM wrote:In regards to a page 2 post about the Dragon Fire mech......

Say what?!!!

And here I thought my universe got skewed with dickgirls, now there's dickmechs!!

They probably have their own share of fans though.

Yeah, that could have been drawn/sculpted better. But hey, it is still a great 'Mech.

Hmm referring to a post in this thread...
Why are so many people actually so sceptic/anti Clan. i love the Clans myself.

At least when they first premiered it was a really bad example of how to balance a game. The Clan tech was all twice as good as Inner Sphere stuff, and the common system for balancing games in those days was pure tonnage, so the clan rules were kind of broken.

Aah that can be. I am just looking at them from a fluff perspective. I liked the concept behind them.

Darthvegeta800 wrote:Aah that can be. I am just looking at them from a fluff perspective. I liked the concept behind them.

I don't mind the Clans, but I don't think a player should learn how to play using them.

I find 3025 games far more entertaining since you have to use more tactics, and can't lean on the technology crutch to get you through combat. Clan vs. Clan combat tends to be very boring to me.