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I think It's up to 2 points of Elementals free now- there's a second upgrade at 170k.

Star Captain for me - although - it will be mainly Inner Sphere Mechs etc.

Hoping they will open up Inner Sphere dice etc.

Looks like they've met all of the Level III stretch goals and have added Level IV. At $350K we'll see the Fire Falcon, Arctic Cheetah, Hellion, Battle Cobra and Black Lanner. At $400K we'll see the Banshee, Grasshopper, Centurion and Hatchetman.

The IS stuff is falling off a bit, as so much of it is stuff we already have.

But hot damn, a plastic Hellion?

The Hellion is one of this "This shouldn't exist!" 'Mechs, a bit like the Ryoken in the "How is it so fast, armoured for its tonnage and still have so many guns that most IS Heavy 'Mechs weep???"

It's a friend of mine's fav 'Mech.

I'm a bit disappointed we haven't seen either an Ostsol or an Ostroc

I'm a bit confused about the KS. If I want the IS lances I either order them as add ons or have to go to the Star Captain level and get saddled with a Clan Invasion box I didn't want to beging with.

Honestly I was thinking there would be a lower level pledge with just an Omni Star/IS mech lance option.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
I'm a bit confused about the KS. If I want the IS lances I either order them as add ons or have to go to the Star Captain level and get saddled with a Clan Invasion box I didn't want to beging with.

Honestly I was thinking there would be a lower level pledge with just an Omni Star/IS mech lance option.

M.

If you just want the IS lances, then yeah, pledge at the $1 level and then just add the amount of money to equal the lance packs you want ($60, I think).

That's actually kind of tempting. Never been much of a Clan fan myself - I always liked the 3025-3039 era. I blame Stackpole and his Warrior trilogy.

Am I missing it or are there no images on the project page showing you what's in the actual pledge levels? Other than a quick image of the new set, I see mostly a long tedious list of SGs

 infinite_array wrote:

 Miguelsan wrote:
I'm a bit confused about the KS. If I want the IS lances I either order them as add ons or have to go to the Star Captain level and get saddled with a Clan Invasion box I didn't want to beging with.

Honestly I was thinking there would be a lower level pledge with just an Omni Star/IS mech lance option.

M.

If you just want the IS lances, then yeah, pledge at the $1 level and then just add the amount of money to equal the lance packs you want ($60, I think).

That's actually kind of tempting. Never been much of a Clan fan myself - I always liked the 3025-3039 era. I blame Stackpole and his Warrior trilogy.

My main issue is that living in Japan I'm going to be hit badly by the shipping (60$ for just the AGoAC box!) So I'm keen to avoid things that don't add much value to my games like Omnis

M.

Then just get the lower pledge and then add on the IS Lance Packs.

I've done that with other Kickstarters, where the main thrust of the campaign didn't interest me and I just wanted to get a couple of the add-ons.

That's what I'm thinking. Or get another set of 55 tonners, you can never have enough Griffins, plus the IS lance packs.

M.

So which pledge is the sweet spot one that will be the most popular?

I’m just gonna pick 5 IS Lance boxes for my pledge reward and live with whatever blind box Clanners I get to go with the main box set. Along with the IS add on that’ll be 50 IS mechs and 15 Clan.

There should be an all Urbanmech lance pack pledge. Let's call it Solahma pledge!

M.

Two Urbies, and Urbie IIC, and for command an Imp.

New stretch goals are up, including a Star pack that has a plastic Turkina!!!

I've never played Battletech the miniatures game, but have played a fair deal of the older computer games and Mech Commander and always really enjoyed them. I'm considering jumping in on this as I really like the Mechs and world, but feel a bit skeptical with how Catalyst has been with handling supply issues.

On a game related note, how is Battletech to play? I know it's an older system and have heard it can take a long time to play, but is it possible to play a Lance on Lance engagement in a couple hours? At a quick glance through the rules, Alpha Strike looks like it is a simplified version of the game, is it any fun?

Thanks for any feedback.

They've met the Level IV stretch goals. At $450K we'll see Turkina, Kingfisher, Crossbow, Ebon Jaguar, and Huntsman OnmiMechs and at $500K we'll see Blackjack, Panther, Wolfhound and Jenner BattleMechs. Still no Ostroc or Ostsol

 Ghaz wrote:
They've met the Level IV stretch goals. At $450K we'll see Turkina, Kingfisher, Crossbow, Ebon Jaguar, and Huntsman OnmiMechs and at $500K we'll see Blackjack, Panther, Wolfhound and Jenner BattleMechs. Still no Ostroc or Ostsol

New IS versions or the ones currently in production. If it's the later it will be a disappointment but the former might end in delays b/c as usual sculpts or molds are not ready on time and other KS woes.

M.

Backed. Backed so hard its dumb.

I'm slightly worried though by the 'complexity' of this KS - it reminds me of the earlier KS days where campaigns had multiple pledge levels and oodles of add-ons. IME this has always led to a logistical nightmare come fulfillment time.

Still backing this. Though I might limit my pledge stuff to the core offerings + whatever is in the earlier wave deliveries. I await their wave delivery schedule with great interest.

This strikes me as a mostly straightforward KS.

A lot of add-ons isn't a terrible thing. The latter pledge levels just seem to be of the "get more free gak" types, in some cases just doubling what you normally get. Only real exception is the retail pledge, which makes sense.

It's not one of those Kickstarters with a half dozen different factions, and different pledge levels give you access to more factions, and their bonuses, but not other ones, then faction-specific add-ons and all sorts of other nonsense. I'm thinking back to the Relic Wars KS, and everything like it since then.

 Sabotage! wrote:
I've never played Battletech the miniatures game, but have played a fair deal of the older computer games and Mech Commander and always really enjoyed them. I'm considering jumping in on this as I really like the Mechs and world, but feel a bit skeptical with how Catalyst has been with handling supply issues.

On a game related note, how is Battletech to play? I know it's an older system and have heard it can take a long time to play, but is it possible to play a Lance on Lance engagement in a couple hours? At a quick glance through the rules, Alpha Strike looks like it is a simplified version of the game, is it any fun?

Thanks for any feedback.

Battletech was the first table top game I seriously played and it's a fair bit of fun however it's very much a 1980s pen and paper game, designed around using a small number of units with a lot of detail etc a lance vs lance game can be a few afternoons of play, company vs company
(thats 12 mechs a side) you're looking at most of the day. anything much bigger and it's gonna be a big weekend event type deal.

Just backed at Star Captain level AND Miniature Market has the main box set back in stock. It's a good day to be a BTech fan!

Fingers crossed that the KS blowing up as it has doesn't make Catalyst go full-tilt stupid with stretch goals it can't ever fulfil....aw crap, it's already happening, isn't it? It's only day 1, stay positive, Kal, stay positive....

I want them to add the Beginner Box as an add-on.

Sneak peek of the Crusader from the Kickstarter page...

I pledged "no reward," with enough to cover four lances. That should be enough to last me forever, given how rarely I game these days...

Plastic Turkina unlocked!

'Tis a good day.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Plastic Turkina unlocked!

'Tis a good day.

The Turkina, Nobori-nin (Huntsman) and Cauldron-Born (does anyone call it the Ebon Jaguar?) were IMHO three of the Clan OmniMechs most in need of an update.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
I've never played Battletech the miniatures game, but have played a fair deal of the older computer games and Mech Commander and always really enjoyed them. I'm considering jumping in on this as I really like the Mechs and world, but feel a bit skeptical with how Catalyst has been with handling supply issues.

On a game related note, how is Battletech to play? I know it's an older system and have heard it can take a long time to play, but is it possible to play a Lance on Lance engagement in a couple hours? At a quick glance through the rules, Alpha Strike looks like it is a simplified version of the game, is it any fun?

Thanks for any feedback.

Battletech was the first table top game I seriously played and it's a fair bit of fun however it's very much a 1980s pen and paper game, designed around using a small number of units with a lot of detail etc a lance vs lance game can be a few afternoons of play, company vs company
(thats 12 mechs a side) you're looking at most of the day. anything much bigger and it's gonna be a big weekend event type deal.

Thanks for the heads up. If it takes a couple afternoons to play a lance on lance game, it is probably not the game for me. I really appreciate your help!

 Sabotage! wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

 Sabotage! wrote:
I've never played Battletech the miniatures game, but have played a fair deal of the older computer games and Mech Commander and always really enjoyed them. I'm considering jumping in on this as I really like the Mechs and world, but feel a bit skeptical with how Catalyst has been with handling supply issues.

On a game related note, how is Battletech to play? I know it's an older system and have heard it can take a long time to play, but is it possible to play a Lance on Lance engagement in a couple hours? At a quick glance through the rules, Alpha Strike looks like it is a simplified version of the game, is it any fun?

Thanks for any feedback.

Battletech was the first table top game I seriously played and it's a fair bit of fun however it's very much a 1980s pen and paper game, designed around using a small number of units with a lot of detail etc a lance vs lance game can be a few afternoons of play, company vs company
(thats 12 mechs a side) you're looking at most of the day. anything much bigger and it's gonna be a big weekend event type deal.

Thanks for the heads up. If it takes a couple afternoons to play a lance on lance game, it is probably not the game for me. I really appreciate your help!

I'm pretty sure he meant "hours," not afternoons. It's a crunchy game, but not that crunchy.

 Ghaz wrote:
The Turkina, Nobori-nin (Huntsman) and Cauldron-Born (does anyone call it the Ebon Jaguar?) were IMHO three of the Clan OmniMechs most in need of an update.

Insufferable MWO players call it an Ebon Jaguar.

The Cauldron-Born did get a second sculpt. I'm not sure which one I have actually...

Although I'd argue that the Linebacker is in more dire need of an update than any of them.

 Sabotage! wrote:
Thanks for the heads up. If it takes a couple afternoons to play a lance on lance game, it is probably not the game for me. I really appreciate your help!

I think he worded it badly. A Lance v Lance won't take a couple of afternoons. It's a few hours, like a regular 40K game. Company vs Company, that can take a few afternoons (less as you get more familiar with the rules).