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Master Engineer with a Brace of Pistols





washington state USA

More tasty battletech tonight-

A little clan on clan action, steel viper alpha galaxy VS clan hells horse iota galaxy.


Silly thing about this game my commander (hell star) took 2 head hits and immediately went to take a nap and missed half the battle.

Not to worry in true horse tradition my strike tanks and proto mechs came to the rescue. including iota's penchant for headhunting command elements

the tally wasn't good for the Vipers. every mech was put into forced withdrawal from damage save the executioner who saw the way the wind was blowing and surrendered the field.

the horse side lost a timber wolf, a strike tank, with light damage to the tomahawk II, a protomech and heavy damage to the hell star.

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The Great State of New Jersey

Has there been any communication from Catalyst about where things are headed in terms of further plastic mini releases? We know Scroggins and co have been doing concept art and 3D models for what seems to be a pretty extensive range of additional sculpts (easily a few dozen more mechs), but no real indication as to whether they will be connected to another kickstarter or if there are more direct-to-retail forcepacks coming, etc.

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Monarchy of TBD

Nothing from Catalyst. Quite understandable, since because of supply issues or whatever they end up missing most projected deadlines- Tamar Rising, the awesome sourcebook that finally dropped this week, was supposed to have been out around November of last year.

Scroggins did say that the Wolf's Dragoon assault Star was only a small taste of things to come on facebook a few days ago, though that's hardly official or a timeline.

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I hope what's still to come is more readily available than Best Buy exclusives or whatever.

BTech minis are not Funko Pops.

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meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.

And you could readily order it from B&N if you really really really wanted it.
   
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Biloxi, MS USA

 auticus wrote:
meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.


The Annihilator is unique to the Wolf's Dragoons pack.

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 auticus wrote:
meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.
It's a different Black Jack. The Annihilator isn't available anywhere else.

We don't have Barnes & Nobles in Australia.

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Well thats my bad then. I didn't know the Annihilator wasn't a part of anything else, I was told / read that the wolf's dragoons box was just alt poses or special variants of everything that had already come out.

Doing a check here: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Miniatures_-_Catalyst_Game_Labs

They don't even list that box's contents.
   
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Florence, KY

 auticus wrote:
Well thats my bad then. I didn't know the Annihilator wasn't a part of anything else, I was told / read that the wolf's dragoons box was just alt poses or special variants of everything that had already come out.

Doing a check here: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Miniatures_-_Catalyst_Game_Labs

They don't even list that box's contents.

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/BattleTech:_Wolf%27s_Dragoons_Assault_Star

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 auticus wrote:
meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.
It's a different Black Jack. The Annihilator isn't available anywhere else.

We don't have Barnes & Nobles in Australia.



Not in Spain either.
   
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B&N is a US only chain. B&N however ships to Canada so I got mine, I know it's not exactly ideal but B&N seems to be willing to ship world wide, It's proably the best you can do that way

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Austria

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 auticus wrote:
meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.
It's a different Black Jack. The Annihilator isn't available anywhere else.

We don't have Barnes & Nobles in Australia.

you should be able to get one, one of the BT players I know lives in New Zealand and ordered one (and we made jokes about of the 2nd Wave of the KS or the B&N Box will arrive first)

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 kodos wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
 auticus wrote:
meh it was only a single box of alt poses and mechs you could get in the other lance packs.
It's a different Black Jack. The Annihilator isn't available anywhere else.

We don't have Barnes & Nobles in Australia.

you should be able to get one, one of the BT players I know lives in New Zealand and ordered one (and we made jokes about of the 2nd Wave of the KS or the B&N Box will arrive first)


Paying more than double or even triple (outrageous shipping, plus VAT, plus "expenses") for the privilege is not really an option.

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preston

 auticus wrote:

And you could readily order it from B&N if you really really really wanted it.

They dont ship to the UK.

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washington state USA

Just a heads up for all the battletech fans-

found this site that sells both 3d printed terrain and STLs for battletech terrain

It is the only place i have seen the HEXTECH brand

https://steelwarriorstudios.com/pages/what-is-hextech

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Yeah, the designers there also have made a bunch of classic unseens from Dougram. And a really sweet Warhammer.
   
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I just got my stuff from steel warrior studios and its pretty great stuff.

I went in pretty heavy with some city stuff, roads, hills, and forests. I recommend.
   
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I just ordered the delta base garrison set for the mech repair facility. a buddy of mine just got a printer so i am sure we will see some of those STLs make it onto our game tables.





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

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 Albertorius wrote:
Yeah, the designers there also have made a bunch of classic unseens from Dougram. And a really sweet Warhammer.

I cannot find the mechs, I imagine it will be STL only?

M.

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 Miguelsan wrote:
 Albertorius wrote:
Yeah, the designers there also have made a bunch of classic unseens from Dougram. And a really sweet Warhammer.

I cannot find the mechs, I imagine it will be STL only?

M.

Yeah, 3d files, they have all of them up on thingiverse and cults:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thunderhead/designs
https://cults3d.com/en/users/Thunderhead_Studio/creations

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The Land of the Rising Sun

I need to find myself an old school Crusader somewhere. I don't like the current iteration of the design. Then printlike a full company of 55 toners, can't never go wrong with those.

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 Miguelsan wrote:
I need to find myself an old school Crusader somewhere. I don't like the current iteration of the design. Then printlike a full company of 55 toners, can't never go wrong with those.

M.


I did find a nice one on Thingymawajit.

I know what you mean about the new sculpt - whilst it's really good, it's one of the few where I prefer the old one. Those forearm LRMs give me bad Project Phoenix flasbacks.

The one I found was obviously just an armoured valk, but it's so much better than the skinny 3rd ed. plastic one that I'd previously been using.
   
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washington state USA

A couple games tonight. i didn't actually play in these games as i was busy with my own, however i did set up the terrain.


First up was a hells horse VS marik battle.


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The second battle went davion VS marik.


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Astonished of Heck

 Miguelsan wrote:
I need to find myself an old school Crusader somewhere. I don't like the current iteration of the design.


I don't know, I rather like it, personally. Let's face it, there is almost no way to make LRM-15s in the forearms to be pretty. It's still a long shot better than the Project Phoenix model, and looks so much less like the Armored Valkyrie of Robotech that only a property manager would think they are the same.



Still, I only got it because I wanted the other three. It's hard to say no to an Atlas, Marauder II and an Orion. It's not a problem with the model, I just am not a fan of its weapon placement.

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Plus there are some fun Crusader variants out there, like the 5K and it's MRMs, or the 8S with its Heavy Gauss Rifle.

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FYI: The premium Black Knight is back on sale for the last time:

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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What the hell happened?

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
What the hell happened?
No idea - That's all GGL have said, and Creative Juggernaut haven't said anything (their latest update is from last year about their textured bases). There's a few comments on the socials that Blaine L. Pardoe has gone too far off the rails for CGL to work with, but

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*sigh*

Just leave the damned politics out and make the minis.

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