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 Garfield666 wrote:
Is there a set release date for the Urbi lance and Proliferation cycle pack? I think I read after Adepticon somewhere, but I can't find anything...

https://bg.battletech.com/news/battletech-at-adepticon-mercenaries-kickstarter-launch-party-details-and-product-announcements/

New at the Show
Of course we’re bringing the entire current catalog of available BattleTech box sets, ForcePacks, books and maps–along with faction swag of metal dice, pins, patches and lapel pins. Additionally, we’ll have advance copies of the following items on sale as well; many of these are being flown in, and with the ongoing volatility of shipping, we cannot guarantee they will be there until we’re at the show. (Most of these items will be available through standard distribution by late Spring).

So the Company level pledge... gives you more than a company?

I for one am not going to complain

I wouldn't read too much into the names.

Managed to get a bit of remote dice rolling sorted with Graphite.

Clanners- Timber Wolf, Pouncer, Loki, Nova prime and Nova S

IS- Archer, 2x warhammer, bushwacker, Griffin, locust, Valkyrie, Blackjack.

No special rules being used. Just a straight up fight to bed the rules in again.

Started with the clan forces pushing down the centre and bottom flank, while my IS forces largely faced them down, and it’s just the lights sprinting and jumping down the top flank.





In the first two firing turns, Graphite hit twice out of the 10 attack rolls, while I was reliably plinking on 10s and 12s to hit. After a quick ride replacement, things started getting close in and messy.

We didn’t quite manage to finish l, amsld si paused it here



I’m down a warhammer and the Griffin, and my Archer is severely leaking smoke. The Clan era are missing the Pouncer and the Nova S, while the Timber Wolf has a single structure point left, and the other Nova is looking a bit wobbly.

Great fun game

From the Clan point of view, things are looking decidedly sketchy.



Timber Wolf is on its last legs, Hellbringer has a pair of Lights shooting straight into it's rear armour and the Nova is surrounded and pouring out Heat (I tried out the Overheat rule. It does brutal things)

The Clans seem to be a bit of a glass cannon - which is fine, if they can actually roll to hit. How this lot passed their Trial of Position to get a seat in an Omnimech is beyond me...

Anyhow! All my Clanners are now painted, having finished the models from the Starter:



Giving me a full Trinary of Mechs, with the light Star being a Nova:



Onward to painting the Sphere forces!

As someone who grew up on some of the novels (the Gray Death Legion saga mostly, wasn't a huge fan of the early Clan novels, a bunch of the others were hit and miss), and then later the video games (Mechwarrior 2, expansions, Mech Commander 1 & 2, hell even the SNES era MW game), but has never actually played the table top version, I finally decided to get the AS core box, to round out some force packs I got when a buddy and I split a Star Colonel in the last Kickstarter.

Hopefully I can find time this week to give it a trial run to understand the mechanics before I attempt to teach it to my girlfriend and some friends, but are there any tips or common snags I should look out for?

At a glance, I've got almost 40 mechs (and a pack of Elementals), though a few are duplicates with alternative versions, so if I don't worry too much about remaining faction/era accurate, that should be substantial variety right off the bat, and while I'm expecting delays on the current KS, I'm currently in for a Veteran and considering a Company, though with the prices likely being the same or possibly even higher than purchasing at retail, and minimal interest in the Legendary FP's, I'm thinking I may just keep things small and reasonable for now.

Edit: I'm thinking of grabbing the Battlefield Support deck while I'm getting some other stuff. It says it provides cards for 'one side' in a game, is this seriously something that needs a full deck per person, or would I be able to get away with mashing the 55 card expansion with the 25 that come with the core box and just having both/all players draw from the same pile?

For a nice bit of terrain, or a troop lander, Hot Wheels just released a standard car sized (a buck or so at stores) Version of the Lightyear Armadillo. Scales very well for 6mm.

Here's the 3 Armadillos I have.

L to R.
Standard Hot Wheels. Best for 6mm, maybe up to 10mm
Large Hot Wheels. good for 10-15mm
Lightspeed series. 20mm and up, though as we've seen there are some impressive conversions to small scales as well.

Still on a Battletech mood, as of late ^^

I've been priming and starting to paint buildings:



Also, printed "some" vehicles and IS standard battle armors:



The BA are lovely sculpts, even though a tad bigger than the official toads:



Fun and easy to paint, too, at least at the "be ready to play like, now" level.




I've also started to print the main frames for the StageTop printable gaming table:



They stack really well, which should help for storing them:



By my calculations, I'll need about 15 for 2 Battletech boards:




And I've just got ready for play the vehicles I'll be needing for next friday's game:



Nothing fancy at all, just "table ready".

We're gonna try for a 400 points game of planetary militia defending a city versus a Comstar unit posing as mercs trying to do a extraction, and we're gonna use a lot of new rules for the first time ^^. Hopefully we'll get some right.


The full militia list would be:

Battlemech Lance: Urbie, Urbie, Commando, Enforcer
Support Fire Lance: LRM Carrier, LRM Carrier, SRM Carrier, SRM Carrier
Heavy Battle Lance: Demolisher, Demolisher, Bulldog, Bulldog
Pursuit Lance: Vedette, Vedette, Vedette, Vedette
Garrison: Heavy Wheeled APC, Heavy Wheeled APC, Heavy Wheeled APC, Heavy Wheeled APC, Foot infantry Platoon, Foot infantry Platoon, Foot infantry Platoon, Foot infantry Platoon

Nice work on the buildings and the infantry/vehicles, Albertorius - really like the exhaust effects on the jumping BA.

 Dysartes wrote:
Nice work on the buildings and the infantry/vehicles, Albertorius - really like the exhaust effects on the jumping BA.

Thanks! Let's see how they do today ^^

Graphite and I finished off our play by Whatsapp game with a solid win to the IS.

Our amateur analysis suggested that Ian's star being fitted entirely with training ammo and half-drained Duracells may have contributed to his loss. There were a lot of dead certs that ended up fluffing, and with just the 5 mechs it never got around to swinging around the other way. I'm expecting a future game to be somewhat less easy going on me

Got a game on sunday we're calling Dropship.

- 350 point lists, take 200
- other 150 are reinforcements
- place a token on the ground, 6 inches from the table center
- standing on token for 1 turn without dying means rest of your list is added
- 5 points for a successful drop
- points for kills = size
- game ends after 10 turns

Some more 3D printed stuffs!

I’ve done some battle armour as well I understand from Sarna that IS armour has SRM racks that are jettisoned to enable the jump nets to be used, so I fiddled some drop-racks on some of them.





Also, tokens! Done so I can put the actual tmm there for ease of reference.

Those look very cool

...but traditionally IS standard battle armor has a one-shot SRM-2 or an arm gun, not both as elementals ^_^ (or well, rather: the SRM-2 is one of the arm-mounted gun options)

Well crap, there goes my research

I mis-read it as having disposable pods, and an arm gun of some kind.

Oh well. They are done now and my level of caring is minimal


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No, wait, there it is. I didn't dream it!

The Longinus version

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Longinus

Equivalent to elemental armour (but not quire as good), arm mount but with pods that needed to be dropped before the jump jects could be used.

 Flinty wrote:
Well crap, there goes my research

I mis-read it as having disposable pods, and an arm gun of some kind.

Oh well. They are done now and my level of caring is minimal


Automatically Appended Next Post:
No, wait, there it is. I didn't dream it!

The Longinus version

https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Longinus

Equivalent to elemental armour (but not quire as good), arm mount but with pods that needed to be dropped before the jump jects could be used.

Ah, gotcha, but that ain't the IS standard, but a Marik-specific one ^^

Currently there's dozens of BA designs, so you can probably choose whichever you prefer them to be XD

From what I can see, though, they are almost equivalent (the Longinus has 0* at medium range for an extra point in squads of 4)

Ok, questions time, I'd like to tap into dakka's Btech knowledge to help me a bit with army design.

This is mainly for AS, as that's what I'm starting to play with a friend and what we're testing, but I'd like to be able to use it too in regular Btech (so, would be nice if lances were also useable in regular Btech, even if swapping around).

A while ago, I painted a Draconis Combine Lance, and I kinda liked the results, even though it's probably not very optimized:



I painted it "default Kuritan scheme" or Sword of Light-ish, and I kinda like how it looks.

So now I was thinking about doing a C3-enabled company to play around with those rules in AS. The plan would be to make it pre-Jihad, which seems to be the time where the DC most played around with the C3 concept, and I'd like it to be something of a top of the line company for the era, with things like the first omnis and the like.

Not sure if it's best to have a mech with 2 C3 Masters as company commander or to have two C3M-equipped mechs in the command lance, to be honest, but if I want a double C3M mech it seems I'd be limited to a Battlemaster CM, a Tai-sho, a Sunder OB or a Naginata. Of those, the Tai-sho and the Naginata are... well, not really very pretty ^^.

So, what would you do, dakkaites? Help me out a bit? ^^ Gonna post this here and on the Classic BT thread, just in case, so feel free to answer where you think is more appropiate.

https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/13lamvw/whipped_up_these_snapclosure_buildings_for_alpha/

This creator designed 6mm buildings for Alpha Strike which also double as storage containers. The larger ones hold the cards, and the small towers look like they hold 16mm dice. He's offering the 3D printer files for free at his website.

That's very clever.

thats is very good, concept easily ports to other things and with a bit of care wouldn't be hard to have suitable compartments for specific mechs/vehicles to support them safely

also removes the arguement of "can this mech fully hide behind that building" when the thing can fit inside it

leopard wrote:
also removes the arguement of "can this mech fully hide behind that building" when the thing can fit inside it

An issue that literally cannot happen with hexmaps, proving their inherent superiority.

Harder to store your mechs in though

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

leopard wrote:
also removes the arguement of "can this mech fully hide behind that building" when the thing can fit inside it

An issue that literally cannot happen with hexmaps, proving their inherent superiority.

with practice a skilled gamer can start an argument about anything

leopard wrote:
with practice a skilled gamer can start an argument about anything

I think you're wrong about that.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

leopard wrote:
with practice a skilled gamer can start an argument about anything

I think you're wrong about that.

I don't think there's a requirement of "a skilled gamer" for that, just "a gamer".

 Dysartes wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

leopard wrote:
with practice a skilled gamer can start an argument about anything

I think you're wrong about that.

I don't think there's a requirement of "a skilled gamer" for that, just "a gamer".

I think you're wrong about that too.

Impressive. An argument about whether a skilled gamer, or just a gamer is better at starting meaningless arguments. Looks like you're both winning.

In more on topic issues, I'm getting ready for a salvage box AS tournament this weekend. We bring 200 points of force, all mechs for simplicity's sake, 6-12 to avoid swarms or death stars, and add a mech from a random salvage box each of the three rounds. We open all 3 boxes at the beginning of the event, and can field no more than 235 points. We may improve the salvage mech's skill to 2, if we desire, or leave some other mechs at base to hit near the 235 limit. Each salvage mech can be used only once in the tournament.

It should be a lot of fun! It's going to look very odd seeing fresh from the box bare plastic alongside painted forces.

Are there bonus points for anyone who manages to paint their salvage box mechs between rounds?