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CGL will be releasing vehicle lance packs soon, after they have dragged themselves out of the current Mercs Kickstarter stupidity.

Infantry wise, I picked up some nice basic infantry from Brigade Models

https://brigademodels.co.uk/product-category/6mm-sf/infantry/

For power armour and Elementals, CGL do them, but they are super expensive for what you get, and the quality isn’t great just because of the material used. Better to get printed or cast alternatives.

There is always the Iron Wind range
https://www.ironwindmetals.com/index.php/categories/cat-battletech
Keep in mind though that these are not really scaled against either each other or the Force Pack Mechs, they are metal and they don't come cheap.
Otherwise 3D printing if available to you might provide an alternative.

Great paintjob BTW.

Generally speaking... not yet, at least not officially. There's a Handbook in the works that supposed to help with unit organization, and may include some general scenarios.

There are quite a few "historical" scenario packs around, but they aren't always balanced affairs. There are a few objective packs that have been set up by a few groups like Wolfdragoons.com provide. My local group has a standard scenario when we aren't trying to do anything fancy borrowed from the old MechClix Dark Age tournament scene.

As for Vehicles and Infantry, there are several different sources. Battletech is pretty proxy-friendly (aside from some very specific instances). Officially speaking, Ironwind Metals and Ral Partha Europe handle most of the official metal models that can date back up to 30 or 40 years in some cases. CGL just did a kickstarter to launch new vehicle lines and has been shipping out over the last 2 months or so, and should be reaching local distributors before December (hopefully).

Dropzone Commander models are pretty close in size to be useable with Battletech (I've used my Shaltari hovertanks a few times), but the Infantry really need to be rebased.

Another company made a game called Solar Rift whose models are compatible with Battletech. Another company called Metalcore Collectables also makes their 3D printed stuff that's pretty compatible with Battletech, too.

There's a pretty big 3D printing scene out there, if you don't mind not being completely official.

Thank you for the suggestions regarding vehicles and infantry, I will definitely check them out. For me just having mechs on the battlefield makes me lose the sense of scale, having infantry on the table will give a good reference point. I tried putting some 6mm historical miniatures next to mechs then you realize how big they really are. Just need to get some sci-fi infantry I don't think pike and shotte era infantry will work .

We had a pre-planned battle, 3050 clan invasion era with "upgraded" helm memory core variant inner sphere mechs.

The table was the urban city/airfield.







The clan forces-
.dire wolf
.warhawk
.timber wolf
.summoner
.storm crow

The IS force consisted of an assault lance and a heavy lance.

assault lance
.battle master
.goliath
.stalker
.marauder

The support striker lance-
.axeman
.thunderbolt
.blackjack
.phoenix hawk

The inner sphere forces started out pretty strong, but the table started to quickly turn. the first casualty was the battle master taking an ERPPC to the face.

By the end we had the thunderbolt and a phoenix hawk left facing off against a summoner, dire wolf and timber wolf.

The IS force thought better of their situation and lived to fight another day, after being granted hegira-

Added some new shiny to my second swords of light.

the unit special rules allow the lance to use 1 clan mech or 1 mech with clan equipped weapons. so i added the signature direwolf hohiro to my force, along side an awesome, archer and wolverine.

My opponent brought a nightstar, goliath, archer, hunchback.

It turned out to be an explosive game with the hunchies running right up on my dire wolf and archer. it got deleted but also exploded killing the pilot of the dire wolf and vaporizing the archer in the collateral damage.

all i had left facing the night star and archer was my wolverine. i managed to critically damage the archer. so his remaining 2 mechs decided to flee instead of trying to deal with the high mobility target of the wolverine.

Second game out running the hohiro in my kurita lance. up against the age old foe house davion.

We use forced withdrawal rules and quickly started sending mechs home with critical damage. first we traded a warhammer for a rifleman, and then an annihilator for an awesome.

He got ahead on me taking down my archer. then my hohiro took down the templar. and got into a MAD fire fight with the orion.

a pretty equal game all around.

Finally finished painting the Mercenary Box Mechs.

Lance 1:

Lance 2:

Did a quick test game with an MRM heavy C3 land for my swords of light, (just got the crusader from my friend so it is not painted).


My force-
.shugenja
.sunder
.catapult
.crusader

My opponent
.atlas
.banshee
.night star
.archer

I ended up facing a Steiner assault lance. it began well with critical damage removing the nigh tstar. but it turned south for me when i started missing shots that should have been easy.

in the end a slew of crits left me with only the crusader facing an undamaged atlas and a heavily damaged banshee.