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Aye, I'm not quite sure how the timing for that update worked out quite so well

From the comments in Update #76

Scottetechman@gmail.com wrote:When we gonna be shipping?

Catalyst Games - CREATOR wrote:Early 2024 by our estimations, mid-2024 if there are any additional speedbumps!

Why did you edit that to remove additional context?

This is what was actually said:

 Altruizine wrote:
Why did you edit that to remove additional context?

This is what was actually said:

Spoiler:

Because that 'additional context' didn't change anything in Catalyst's reply.

They said "correct" to the proposition of "marchish" and that is a sliver more specific than "early 2024".

Just seems like a bizarrely paternalistic instinct (on behalf of someone who is serving as a self-appointed news dispenser) to want to strip that out of the comment.

 Altruizine wrote:
They said "correct" to the proposition of "marchish" and that is a sliver more specific than "early 2024".

Or they were simply confirming that was what people were being told at PAX, the situation has since changed, and are now clarifying/CYA-ing it's actually "early 2024".

And now to get back on topic...

Here's a 'Mech we're due to see in 2nd quarter of 2024 and it's really just minor tweaks from the TRO artwork. That should keep a lot of people happy.

I own both versions of the Argus. Sure. Let's add a third!

Question, H.B.M.C - which mech do you own the most different sculpts of?

Happy 40th Anniversary!

 Dysartes wrote:
Question, H.B.M.C - which mech do you own the most different sculpts of?

Hmm... it appears that I have lost my most up-to-date 'Mech listing due to my recent computer death.

I would have to say it's the Zeus - maybe - at about 7 of them. That's a guess. The Mad Cat and a few others are close to that.

 Ghaz wrote:



Happy 40th Anniversary!

I entered the rabbit hole 32 years ago. I was studying in the US, one day went to a bookshop, and picked up a box with a cool looking robot on the front for 20$. The rest is a story still in the making...

M.

Yeah, that tracks. Started playing BattleDroids (which became BattleTech after a C&D letter came in from Lucasfilm about their use of the word 'droids') freshman year of high school, 39 years ago.

Now where's my cane?

 Vulcan wrote:
Yeah, that tracks. Started playing BattleDroids (which became BattleTech after a C&D letter came in from Lucasfilm about their use of the word 'droids') freshman year of high school, 39 years ago.

Now where's my cane?

I'll trade you a cane for your copy of Battledroids.

 Prometheum5 wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
Yeah, that tracks. Started playing BattleDroids (which became BattleTech after a C&D letter came in from Lucasfilm about their use of the word 'droids') freshman year of high school, 39 years ago.

Now where's my cane?

I'll trade you a cane for your copy of Battledroids.

Oh, no you don't you whippersnapper! I can get a new cane; can't find a new copy of BattleDroids!

It's... hardly mint condition either, to be honest. "In pieces" is probably way more accurate.

Didn't know it was Battledroids before being Battletech - have pretty much only heard of it being referred to the latter, aside from where game branding like Mechwarrior comes into play.

Having had a quick look at the Wikipedia article on it, nice to see how familiar the artwork is.

I've been adjacent to the Battletech universe since around the time of Mechwarrior 3 and the Sega Genesis game.

Every once in a while I would end up with metal or resin (like, the old Ral Partha blue resins) mech from the hobby store, but I was mostly into 40K/Necromunda in the early 90's, and they were just cool curiosities that I knew were some sort of mech from the same universe as the computer games.

Been playing the miniatures game proper since the Kickstarter and the age of 3D printing gave me mechs that weren't the (to me) godawful Ironwind metal models of my late 90's, early 2000's youth.

My first set was actually Aerotech, because my FLGS sold the last Battletech set about 15 minutes before I got there (though they had a copy of CityTech). I was a bit bummed as I was a huge Robotech (Macross & Defenders models) fan.

Played my first game (Aerotech) in my high school American Government class - it was a draw, my couldn't maneuver as he was thrusting in deep space and I was caught in a decaying orbit. But I was hooked.

Got the Battletech box set by the next month, and our game group played the hell out of it - I think our biggest battle had some 30 mechs on the field at once.

The Visigoth Aerospace Fighter:

Oh my God it's beautiful

chaos0xomega wrote:
Oh my God it's beautiful

I agree. It looks fantastic.

I just wish it was shown next to a 'mech or on a hex so we could see the size.

 Gimgamgoo wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
Oh my God it's beautiful

I agree. It looks fantastic.

I just wish it was shown next to a 'mech or on a hex so we could see the size.

CamoSpecs' 2023 Gencon diorama had a Visigoth in it (8th photo..) :

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=609855757925404&set=ecnf.100067029543773

True that! (concerning need for scale reference - i'll check out the facebook link when I'm home from work)

No need to wait...

Liya International just posted 9 more videos on YouTube. Here's the most interesting videos with the Visigoth and Blood Asp. It's been mentioned that they also posted a video packing Savannah Master Salvage Boxes that got pulled...

On the one hand the cheery music is delightful. On the other I wonder if they have ever inadvertantly posted a video with some major incident like someone losing a hand to the mechanism!

 AegisGrimm wrote:
I've been adjacent to the Battletech universe since around the time of Mechwarrior 3 and the Sega Genesis game.

Every once in a while I would end up with metal or resin (like, the old Ral Partha blue resins) mech from the hobby store, but I was mostly into 40K/Necromunda in the early 90's, and they were just cool curiosities that I knew were some sort of mech from the same universe as the computer games.

Been playing the miniatures game proper since the Kickstarter and the age of 3D printing gave me mechs that weren't the (to me) godawful Ironwind metal models of my late 90's, early 2000's youth.

Mechwarrior 2 was definitely a big, defining game for me as a kid. Figuring out how to get it to work was a huge incentive to really learn how computers work and eventually how networking works with the release of NetMech (though internet use at the time was too expensive per minute to really play). I picked up the tabletop game but never really figured out how to play it. Old computers were easier

Screen caps of the Savannah Master Salvage Boxes can be found at https://hpgstation.de/2024/01/11/mehr-produktionsvideos-blood-asp-savannah-master-salvage-box/ It looks like there will be two Savannah Masters per base and two bases per Salvage Box. No pictures of the mini as of yet unfortunately

Video of vee packing




I really like the carriers. Looking forward to painting my pledge up.

Hmmm, 36 Savannah Masters per display case. So two display cases and you're set.