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I mostly like the reworked art, however the original WWII bomber style nose is more to my liking. the reworked nose is a bit jarring as the window panels are not symetrical.

From the Proliferation Force Pack:

Yeah, Firebee definitely Most Improved in that set. Looks great!

The Firebee.

Also known as the "We heard you like SRM-2s, so we put SRM-2s with your SRM-2s, so you can SRM-2 even more!"

Still, a surprisingly solid design aside from that, and a lot of fun to play.

Well, you could only take Inferno SRMs for SRM-2 launchers back in the day so the Firebee is pretty accurately named.

So I picked up some purples and blues from the new Vallejo Game Color range... meaning the right thing to do was try and do a Marik Militia scheme:

Got in 3 games tonight.

Game one was a simple 2V2 to teach somebody how to use aerospace fighters in ground maps.....i have never seen somebody fail a 7+ check on making an immelmann that many times during a game.

he eventually got the hang of it.

we then did an assault lance battle. it was a narrow for the combine as he had one atlas asleep with 5 head hits that survived. the grand crusader did what he does best going 25 overheat and taking out both the warhammer and nightstar in the ensuing ammo explosion. 28 volleys worth of LRM 20 ammo makes for a big boom.

The last game ended up being far close than expected. i was trying to run nothing but invasion era chassis.
.adder
.storm crow
.vulture
.cauldron born
.timber wolf

The end of the game came down to our commanders facing off-turkina VS timber wolf.....ammo crit on the timber ended things. it was the second such result that game. the sad part was the cauldron born taking almost no damage.....except that pesky gauss to the face.

Nice Marik scheme, Albertorious!

Purples are where I need to get Vallejo to help me as well Supply seems to be picking up in the UK so I might even be able to get some!

 Flinty wrote:
Nice Marik scheme, Albertorious!

Purples are where I need to get Vallejo to help me as well Supply seems to be picking up in the UK so I might even be able to get some!

Thank you . So far I'm pretty happy with the paints, they flow really well and are a treat to work with.

 Albertorius wrote:
So I picked up some purples and blues from the new Vallejo Game Color range... meaning the right thing to do was try and do a Marik Militia scheme:

Nice.

I use Army Painter's Alien Purple myself. It's a bit different. I don't know if it would work well for Marik, but it does pretty well as my reverse mock Cloud Cobra scheme.

What's the actual "go live" time for the Kickstarter?

Backerkit’s live countdown timer suggests 4pm uk time on Thursday.

Getting quite exciting really.

 Flinty wrote:
Backerkit’s live countdown timer suggests 4pm uk time on Thursday.

Getting quite exciting really.

From the Kickstarter announcement back in November:

We are beyond excited to officially announce that Catalyst Game Labs and AdeptiCon have partnered to launch the BattleTech: Mercenaries Kickstarter on March 23rd, 2023, 10 a.m. Central/11 a.m. Eastern–the first day of AdeptiCon. We’ll be livestreaming throughout the weekend, including the campaign’s launch, Q&A sessions, developer interviews, actual-play events, and more!

So yes, 4pm BST.

I just had a thought, there is no post in the news and rumours page for this kickstarter.

 Formosa wrote:
I just had a thought, there is no post in the news and rumours page for this kickstarter.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/807608.page

ah must have missed that haha

 Flinty wrote:
Backerkit’s live countdown timer suggests 4pm uk time on Thursday.

Oh dear. That's 3am in the morning. And on a school night.

Hmm...

From Shimmy's Patreon:

Timber Wolf Gold
Before I ship out for Adepticon and the Kickstarter launch event, here's a post!

Much like the Marauder, we just gave the Timber Wolf a face lift, though not as intensive as the Marauder.
This one mostly focuses around the nose geometry, which wasn't toleranced well for production, but there are detail cast-ability enhancements all around.
I also adjusted a few proportions, a hair more torso size, and more beef on the lower arms. It was me who fought to keep the arms smaller originally, but it wasn't until production that I saw they were too small. More overall size, more length, and a bit more barrel protrusion.

This model is also a special variant. See if you can figure it out. Though it technically works as two versions.
Feel free to share this around!

Sorry I didn't get more posted before heading out. I've still got plenty of Proliferation Cycle renders to show, and more KS stuff. But I guess we've got a whole month for the campaign.

Wish me luck at the con. I'm gonna be wiped out by the end of it

Note that this matches the Bounty Hunter 2 configuration of the Timber Wolf, along with the Marauder Gold and previously seen Loki Mk II pretty much confirms the surprise Force Pack will indeed be the Bounty Hunter.


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Premium Rifleman spotted at Adepticon

So the Kickstarter seems to be a hit...

 Charistoph wrote:
So the Kickstarter seems to be a hit...

Very much so, both a surprise and not!
Fun discussion also had, and have had some people ask about it. So it’s getting out there on the thoughts of more people.

I’m have a random question about vehicles in. The lore. So mechs might have a camo scheme, or a parade scheme applied and still be used in combat. Is the same true of vehicles? Or are they always cammed up?

 Flinty wrote:
I’m have a random question about vehicles in. The lore. So mechs might have a camo scheme, or a parade scheme applied and still be used in combat. Is the same true of vehicles? Or are they always cammed up?

From my understanding it’s similar to mechs and based on the faction, location and regiment.
So unless there is specifics, you can make it up a bit.

As Apple said. It's canon that vehicles from the Swords of Light are painted in the same colors than the mechs. New Roland's militia probably not.

M.

Cool, thanks guys.

Just a bunch of sillyness tonight.

Game 1 was a planned post jihad republic era clan battle.

His force
.annihilator with reflective armor + heavy gauss
.direwolf with HAG 40s
.turkina
.supernova 4
.kingfisher with HAG

My force
.tomahawk II B
.ryoken T IATMs, IHMLs nova CEWS
.turkina Z IATMs, nova CEWS
.osteon prime-IATMs nova CEWS
.svartalfa protomechs.

This was a game of silly dice rolls. he really tried to kill that stormcrow since it was the nova CEWS spotter but only manged to shred its armor and kill 2 protos,

The dire wolf died to a hail of HE ATMs including 3 head hits and 2 internal head crits.

The kingfisher went to sleep from pilot hits needing 11s to wake up (he managed to do much of that damage himself from falling).......unfortunately for the annihilator his reflective armor meant he took double falling damaged (after taking 170+ damage in one turn) that crited his gauss rifles 2 times bumping him up to 5 had hits, failing his pilot fall damage check for the 6th and final head shot.

with 2 mechs down one asleep and one shredded he raised the white flag.







The second game was an infatry heavy fight.

i brought an archer, tokugawa and 2 goblin IFVs with raiden battle armor inside.

This was a very close game. i chased off both his big tanks and finally killed all of mine leaving him with a thunderbolt and 1 squad of heavy battle armor vs my archer and 2 squads of Raidens.

He got a gyro crit on the archer forcing him to withdraw for the win.







Game 3 was us taking some of the worst mechs we could-

I brought 2 wasps, a valkyrie and a crusader for the all macross lance.

He took a couple stingers, a spider and a nightsky-

the valkyrie did nothing all game missing with every shot. there was lots of jumping around for advantage and loads of kicking....fear that 4 point wasp kick.

It ended up being my wasp and crusader VS his spider and nightsky. he got an engine kill on the crusaders left torso thanks to XLs.

A silly game but fun.

 Miguelsan wrote:
As Apple said. It's canon that vehicles from the Swords of Light are painted in the same colors than the mechs. New Roland's militia probably not.

M.

Sarna has an interesting article on Canon. Artwork would fall into the area of not being canon if it directly contradicts a sourcebook. Also note that while some of the Sword of Light regiments have attached armor, they themselves are not a part of the Sword of Light regiment (at least according to Fiedl Manual: Draconis Combine which covers the early Clan Invasion era). However most players won't have a problem with the armor painted to match the BattleMech units.

I love this game. whenever I can get in a game, I try to. I love mecha and the setting.

Morning all - is there a good guide to starting BattleTech kicking around anywhere? I didn't see an article on the topic here on Dakka.

Have backed the Mercenaries KS, and picked up the "A Game of Armored Combat" (sic) box at the weekend, with an "Inner Sphere Battle Lance" box on order from Zatu at the moment.

Currently thinking that some information on the "big boxes" would be useful, as well as any paint scheme or basing info?

Dysartes just start playing with quickstart rules manual than try normal and alpha strike.

Paint schemes are definitely found in google search, though you might want to just do camo or artistic.

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YO does anyone play in northern georgia or south carolina??

I am in toccoa near the border but I am willing to drive up to 50 miles to play and I always bring beer and pizza.


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On Inner Sphere mechs is not using an XL engine better? It is so much easier to die, I think I would rather go slow and use jump jets to get around.

This website has painstakingly brought together hundreds if not thousands of paint schemes that are canon in the BT universe

https://camospecs.com/

All forces tend to have camo and parade variants that are used interchangeably on the battlefield. Basing is then just to match your own preferences, and doesn’t particularly need to match the camo

You can sink a lot of quite enjoyable time into the backstory. My preferred source is the Black pants Legion, and specifically the Tex Talks Battletech youtube series.

Pretty much any faction can use any mech due to salvage and suchlike, but there are some mech/faction pairings that are more canon If you want to be particularly accurate to the lore.

Also go and read the battletech wiki on Sarna.