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Another round of aerotech- this time out we brought fighters....unfortunately one of my new minis was not sent by accident so i still had to sub in the cappellan cruiser as the Tharkad, But at least i had my mako and soyuz on the table alonf with my thunderbird ASFs.

This game ended much quicker than expected. i targeted the fox first with both my Tharkad and Mjolnir and deleted it. The fighters savaged each other trying to prevent them from doing gun runs on the opponents cruisers. the game turned when i managed to hit the Avalon with broadsides from the Tharkad and Mjolnir with threshold critical damage that completely destroyed it's bridge and spun it out of control heading off the table (again).

The actual Tharkad model just came in the mail so i will have it ready to go for the next fight.

Jade Phoenix E of the Jade Falcons (totally not redundant). I've spent more time on this one than I'm used to, mostly because I wanted to play a bit with transitions, edge highlights, an an assortment of other echniques that I usually am a bit too lazy to use:





The E has an assortment of tech that should make it fun to play with, I think.

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Finally got all my fleet assets in for my Aero tech stuff-

The lyran fleet with fighter support-



Then my Clan fleet-



I ended up against my former allies in a fedcom civil war scenario.

We had very few important through armor threshold criticals. So the game took a bit longer than normal especially since we put in 2 flights of ASFs on each side.

My only ship loss was the poor little mako when it ate an aegis cruiser broadside. in exchange i put down both the avalon and aegis.












Later on we did a couple small games, the first one when to me since i couldn't seem to miss and almost all my fire hit the left arm/left torso's of the mechs.

It was over so fast we had him upgrade his clan options and we had another go. the second game went very much better for him, winning most initiatives and forcing most of my mechs into forced withdrawal.

Alleged Davion Lance packs at Gencon:

In order:

beast_gts wrote:
Alleged Davion Lance packs at Gencon:

Spoiler:

Thunderbolt NAIS, Thanatos, Falconer, Templar

beast_gts wrote:
Alleged Davion Lance packs at Gencon:

Spoiler:

Enforcer (should be Jumping?), Legionnaire, Gunsmith, Hellspawn

Not to much on this battle tonight, forgot to take many pics-

We brought a steiner and davion lance circa 3rd succession wars era tech-single heat sinks, standard lasers, etc. VS a clan invasion 3050 generic list.

Our side-
Steiner-
battle master
.stalker
.marauder
.warhammer

Davion-
.awesome
.battlemaster
.catapult
.wolverine

The clanners-
.war hawk
.timber wolf
.mad dog
.storm crow
.adder
We got stupid lucky, my battle master managed to face PPC his commanders madcat and kill the pilot with a single crit. even though the clanners fought to the bitter end. the Davions had a catapult and awesome left on the field, albeit in need of massive repairs.

Our Davion player lived up to his reputation as the "seatbelt check" guy, having his wolverine fall down 3 time, his battle master twice (and go to sleep), and his catapult once

I have some questions about the whole Raven Alliance situation I'd like clarification for.

1) Do they have stuff from the "Periphery General" section of the master unit list? It says the units there are "available for all tracked Periphery factions" but the Outworlds Alliance is only there until Early Republic 3083 and after that there's no Raven Alliance listed. Not all the Periphery General units are on the RA section of the MUI so did they just stop using them in relevant amounts?

2) Since the RA is split up into two military organisations, how do you tell which unit belongs with which org? The mech list is pretty much a selection of Clan mechs, a few Star League designs and then suddenly Inner Sphere assault mechs. I can hazard a guess as to where the Clan designs came from but surely the AMC guys can't have been loaded up with assault mechs before the Ravens showed up?


Battletech's freedom in force construction is very nice but having a real army list does do wonders for inforning you of the vibe and style of an army. This is kinda like checking if you like these Ailatoc Eldar guys you heard about and having to thrawl through three fan archive sites to find out what colur scheme they even have.

I'm not really keen on the Il clan era and i only occasionally dabble in the republic of the sphere era preferring the 3rd succession war up to the fedcom civil war (3067) as my preferred era to play in. to your point of playing thematically appropriate era/faction units i fully understand. i do the same thing myself using faction specific loadouts or mechs only made by the factions i play. Fortunately i have a force faction list as well as a computer program that lists the faction affiliation of every unit. Sarna is also a good resource to look up mechs and who makes/uses them. at a quick glance for inner sphere many of the variant loadouts will have a letter at the end that usually aligns them with a house-
K-kurita
S-steiner
L-lao
D-davion
M-marik
etc...

You will also start to notice weapon and mech loadouts that 90% of the time will belong to a specific faction just by looking-I.E. if it is a fast heavy with a PPC of some sort and/or a C3 network it is likely a kurita mech same goes for RACs-davion, heavy Gauss-steiner, stealth armor-capellan, light gauss -marik and so on.

When it comes to snow raven specifically the only late era mechs that come to mind right off the top of my head are the crow variants-carrion crow/war crow

There is also this resource page, it's mostly for alpha strike, but the unit availability is there for each faction-

http://www.masterunitlist.info/Faction/Index

Sarna is pretty extensive but laid out more for maximum information than it is for "40k codex"-style purposes.


I guess I just have to spend a little time this weekend with a notebook and some research. I've heard something about "field guides" and such, maybe that's the ticket. Maybe I should be interested in a less obscure faction but I'm held back by my love for protomechs. Worst comes to worst, I'll resort to the time-tested classic of; making it up myself.

If you love proto mechs (as do i) blood spirits made them, hells horse loves using them. to the point they made a special super heavy WIGE protomech. it also fills out the horse desire to bring something that counts as infantry if you wish to use the field manual special rules (all hells horse galaxies suffer a -1 initiative penalty of they do not bring a point of something that counts as infantry).

On the Clan side I've thought about Hell's Horses, Smoke Jaguar, Blood Spirit, Fire Mandrill, Ghost Bear/Rasalhague Dominion and now Raven Alliance.

I'd pick Hell's Horses if it was my only faction but I want the Clan side of things to contrast maximally with my IS pair of Free World's League and Capellan Confederation. You gotta have a classic IS matchup, you know? So that means making use of protomechs, a unit I like and that is exclusive to a few clans.

What caught my eye about the whole RA thing is that they also use some non-Clan forces so I could mix and match some classics from either side.

I do prefer Raven Alliance's Protomech selection when compared to the Hell's Horses.

In fact, when I first started looking at Protomechs, I ended up picking Protomechs that were Snow Raven/Raven Alliance. Satyrs for Scouting, Rocs for Skirmishing, and Gorgons for fire support, and they work well.

I've started going Hell's Horses recently, though, and picked up some Centaurs. I'm not too confident in them, but they'll be better than Harpies (but then, what isn't?).

I own actual models for ROCs, Minotaurs and Orcs, i actually prefer to run them as Svartalfa or some of the mechforce UK protomechs. my favorite hands down is the demon tick- 9 tons, max armor, max engine, X2 ER-small lasers and a movement profile of 7/11/7, the other one is the blood drinker, effectively a ROC with the medium laser swapped for 3 ER smalls.

Well, yeah, being able to use your own custom unit is always nice.

They are not my units they came installed with the officially licensed (with FASA) Heavy metal program as sanctioned mechforce UK variants.

Okay, using someone else's custom units can be nice, too.

Finished painting some support units. Mostly Kickstarter receipts, but also a little more.

Played my first game of Battletech in a couple of months.

Comstar (me) vs. Clan Diamond Shark
Black Knight, Lancelot, Archer, Mercury vs. Dire Wolf, Timber Wolf, Elementals x 2

My pilots were actually a little better than the Clan pilots for once, mostly 3/5 or 3/4

An adapted Alpha Strike Mission with six objective markers, numbered 1-6. You had to hold consecutive markers to score (e.g. 1 & 2, or 4 & 5. 6 & 1 were consecutive as well). Only a single hex map, because that's all we had.

Everything was going great until turn three when, in the first real shot of the game, the Dire Wolf's Ultra AC hit my Black Knight in the head, knocking the pilot unconscious. The pilot then failed to wake up at the end of the next turn and, not surprisingly, was totally destroyed.

The Archer decided, rather stubbornly, that it was only going to hit with one (out of four) LRM per turn. This was better than the Lancelot, which didn't hit anything in three turns of shooting. I think the Mercury did the most damage out of all my mechs, which was... not good.

I lost, obviously. I actually scored a fair number of scenario points (light mechs are great for scoring), but I lost 2 mechs (Black Knight and Lancelot) and in return killed some elementals and dinged up the Timber Wolf a little. Perhaps my poor gunnery was a sign to take some C3i.

Finalized some more Kickstarter painting as well as a little more.

Recon & Hunter Lances.

Shilones.

Karnovs.

Perspective Shot on flyers.

Finished up all the Vehicles from the Kickstarter receipt:

Mercenary Box:

Assault & Cavalry Support Lances:

Assault Support Lance:

Cavalry Support Lance:

Davion VS Kurita grudge match. my friend forgot his stuff for our planned game so he borrowed some of my minis to put together a RAC 5 heavy force-

.atlas K4
.goliath
.hatchet man
.Manteuffel

i countered him with a C3 lance-

.hatamoto chi- "shugo"
.hatamoto chi- "shiro"
.no-datchi
.chronos

He managed to land head hits on every single mech on my side with at least 5 damage, but only one critical hit to sensors on my no-datchi

The atlas withdrew from critical damage, the tank got motive crited and as expected with my friend he ammo crit exploded, first his hatchet man, and the resulting explosion while catching 2 of my mechs it also caught his goliath, criting his ammo as well. fortunately he had CASE unlike the hatchet or all the mechs would have been dead.....save the no-datchi that was behind a building.

Oh and a side note the goliath actually got to do the vaunted mule kick on the no-datchi nearly taking off it's left leg.

We had a bunch of battle tech planned for the evening so i set up this power station table-






My first game was a continuation from last weeks planned games. some classic medium mechs fighting it out.

I brought 2 wolverines, a shadow hawk and a scorpion. my opposite was running a hatchet man, hunchback, centurion, and bushwhacker.

It was a brutal fight that left me with 2 mechs and him with 1. MVP definitely when to the wolverine 8C with it's pulse weapons and streaks in the semi-urban environment.

Finalized some more painting.

Wolf Dragoon Assault Star


Mercenaries KS Salvage


Visigoth Aerospace Fighters


Shamash (small Clan hovercraft)