Hello all! I've been playing a fair amount of AGoAC and I've decided to start looking into running tanks, hovercraft, and such. What's a good resource to learn the basic names of the units and their loadouts? I assume there's a TRO or it's in TW, but I wanted to start by asking here.

Thanks!

I first discovered Battletech from the Harebrained Schemes game (loved the Shadorun games) then i found Tex from the black pants legion YT channel and fell in love with the universe, played a little of mech warrior (stopped because it keep crashing my computer) and now i considering reading the books.

!

2 opposing assault lances deployed on turn 4, but by then, one of my infantry platoons died in a building collapse, and the other was gunned down by VTOLs. I couldn't take the objective, but dealt more PV destruction overall, leaving my opponent with a Pyhhric Victory.

!

!

Hey everyone, new to Battletech and know barely anything about the lore.

I've got this idea in my head of playing a sort of ragtag rebel army with plenty of infantry, tanks, and what few dregs they could get their hands on for mechs.

What mechs should I look into for this sort of theme?

Also are there any established lore factions that this concept fits into?

!

Painting of a Timber wolf and accompanying Elementals. This is part of a planned dyptich I'm working on.

!

!

!

Displaying my boxes with my Dark Age dropship, Poseidon, and K'nex Uziel.

! !

Light Horses reporting for duty in the wake of Reddit imploding

! ! ! !

My current merc company is The Iron Hounds. My medium lance is all Shadowhawks. Are there better medium mechs? Sure. Are they big stompy bois with cannons on their shoulder?? No.

Been having a lot of fun with these guys - now I just want to get some Shadowhawk 5Ms and cram them with clan tech.

!

!

For a long time I've tried to get a good RPG setting going for BT. I know there's an already written RPG for the game but tbh I don't really like it. For a while, I thought about making a bare-bones RPG myself that used the same base mechanics scaled down, but I found it was just too crunchy and slow. Now, I'm thinking that since the game will get very crunchy and simulated once it steps into mech combat, it can probably be narrative and story-based for the out-of-mech sequences. Since my favourite RPG is hands-down Blades in the Dark, lately, I've been thinking of writing a Forged in the Dark system game for battletech.

This is getting pretty niche so I'm not sure if I'll find enough people who play BT and know FitD well, but I'm curious if anyone in here knows of an existing FitD build, or other more narrative-focused RPG, that would be easier to adapt to BT.

Hey everyone, just trying to help keep this instance afloat while we wait for the system to keep powering up...

So has anyone ever run a MW: Destiny game before? I've run a few sessions with friends, and we're mostly trying to figure this out as we go. I am finding it's hard to constantly think of things on the fly, since your players can modify the path of where things are going so much. I don't think they're taking things "off the rails," per se, just makes it a challenge. Do you have any ideas on what to do once you're stumped?

So I've decided after playing for a year or two that I'm finally going to try painting my minis. I've held off because frankly I have terrible artistic and fine motor skills and I don't want to ruin my mechs.

Ive bought everything I think I need (set of Vallejo paints, primer, brushes, dry brushes, wet pallet, matte varnish, hobby knife, cutting mat, citadel painting handle...probably more) and I'm about ready to dive in.

I was thinking about trying desert camo but I'm wondering if y'all have any suggestions on what might be an easy beginner scheme for me to get my feet wet, or any other tips on painting in general for the artistically challenged like myself :)

Thanks!

In the migration from Reddit to Lemmy, I noticed there was no equivalent to r/OutreachHPG here. Because of this I made my own community.

I figure there’s probably some overlap between fans of the tabletop games and the Mechwarrior video games so I figured I would share it here.

With Lemmy being a smaller community I figured it made sense to keep the focus fairly broad so any mech game is welcome to be discussed.

If this post is inappropriate please delete, just trying to get a healthy MWO community again

My brother would like a 3d printed chess set

I picked up both books of the Capellan Solution for my kid. Wondering if anyone has read these... They look like the usual "not groundbreaking literature but entertaining" kind of fare. Anything they should read before hand?

I'm also curious, I noticed there are a lot of books that sit in chronological order but don't seem to be part of series. I assume most of them can be read out of order? It's been a bit over twenty-five years since I read a BT book myself.

I've managed to build up quite the collection of mechs over the past couple years, and I have kept most of my mech boxes, too. I am starting to kind of run out of space.

The boxes are very cool, and though I like keeping them for their aesthetic, I also feel like I'm turning into a bit of a hoarder, and I'm running out of closet space that could be used for something like the actual mechs themselves, books, etc.

So do you keep your boxes? Do you think they'll have collectors value? Or should I just focus on the mechs and cards instead?

So, my thought goes like this: ENE mechs get extra safe-spots on crit-tables, but kin/msl mechs get no bonuses whatsoever except an infinite supply of ammo. Would it break the game to, say, give the King Crab something like:

AMMO3(+2,+2,+1) and have it's base damage brackets where the AC20 and LRM applies lowered by one. This gives the KC 3 turns where it can increase short and medium damage by 2 in 3 separate rounds of combat. After all AMMO has been spent, treat the mech as ENE.

Thoughts?

I showed my kid this ancient video when they got into battle tech. It might look and sound like crap now, but I was so vindicated when they made me play it three more times.

"Ammunition level... Critical"

Aah. This was the point where I realized the joy of stompy metal feet.

My ComGuard reinforced Level II

! ! !

After years of using the old sheets (and getting tired of filling in little bubbles) I decided to redesign them for our group. They liked them so I figured I'd share them here as well. We use a paperclip to track heat on the right hand side.

Google Drive Link

Let me know if they are useful for you as well. I have future plans for vehicle/armor and infantry sheets (damn clingy elementals).

Future updates:

• A place for ammo
• Space tweaks

I'm actually just doing this to learn how to post photos, the image itself is kinda garbage without my light box, but here you go: one of my glass-green and purple mercenaries!

I find all these metal plates and hard surfaces a lot tougher than organics.

Shortly after my previous post about BEX, my merc company folded due to a lack of funds.

I took the opportunity to install BTA and give it a try. I love the depth, I love the details, but I'm really struggling with the lack of a cohesive art style. I'm finding it pulling me out of my suspension of disbelief.

Has anyone else had that difficulty? Will I outgrow it with time?

I just started with Battletech about two weeks ago and it's safe to say I'm hooked