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New Battletech box set
https://bg.battletech.com/news/battletech-boxed-sets-update-2/?fbclid=IwAR3mByayytWeyJvQfueT9LSg5HbgxKablWLuzQfhqEkWLsL7HoECBofe870
Some update on how those new box sets are coming along, looking like we MIGHT have them in time of Christmas... in my experience whenever there can be a shipping/customs problem there is one.
Mech Warrior online was my child hood, since When was there a miniature game
Whaaat! You know not of battletech?!Actually not that surprising. The IP of battletech has been very poorly handled.Battletech the half wargame half board game started in 1984. There’s been tons of refinement and additions since then. lots of spin offs...The PC game called “BATTLETECH” is much closer to the board game than MWO is so that is a great place to start to get more of a feel of the universe and the tactical warfare involved.https://www.reddit.com/r/battletech/comments/8r5jzb/battletech_tabletop_primer_infographic/This reddit post has a great infographic to get you up to speed on tabletop stuff! But these days I say the BATTLETECH PC game (same group that did Shadowrun returns) is a great game to pick up to get primed on the universe....Also there’s a 90s terribly(great) saturday morning cartoon you can find on Youtube
Command Lance Attacked!
Player team benching the panther for the Dragon that was behind a while back that they captured. Bringing out the heavy LRM launchers since they are taking on...
Taking on a command lance, the Grasshopper, Cyclops and Cicada are vanilla flavored. I accidentally printed out the Vindicator variant that is a 5/8/5 with less armor and rolled with it. Two Marsden II-A since the 3075 makes it sound like these types of tanks would not be unheard of in the Third Succession war. Also they are pretty generic tank loadouts nothing crazy so what does it matter anywho!
Opening turns the the Drac command lance start enveloping the Partikill Solutions assault lance. Looking back at this... the bottom right tank should have just moved straight up like the other one was doing.
Fast forwarding a bit through boring battletech stuff the most interesting things happen where the Cicada kept it’s +4 modifier up along with the Moded Vindi pulling it’s +3 consistently. Life through speed allowed it to dodge past at least 120 missiles (a literal ton in battletech! Which... is like 8.33kg a missile... which a modern day javelin missile is 6.4kg... so hey something that isn’t actually insane! except for fitting 120 missiles in such a tight space)
PPCs, AC10s, and avoid being chopped up by the hatchet man who isn’t getting and good chops in.
The grasshopper tanked a ton of damage (much of it indirect thanks to a hatchetman using his hatchet as a TAG), and believing his own hype of being the ultimate zombie mech jumped up to take a prominent spot... then took 60 missiles that kicked off his dumb dumb dumb lrm-5 ammo slot.
Some dancing of mechs occurs as the Warhamster takes some severe damage. The hatchetman procedes for many turns trying to get to the tasty nouget inside of the tank to no avail. (spoiler warning: the tanks survive and soak up tons of damage)Â
 Hatchetman Pilot: “WHY WON’T YOU DIE!!” Tank Crew: “Hey, you hear something? Sounds like someone is knocking on the hatch”
The Hatchetman sadly loses it’s head when an AC/10 sheers it’s head off... cleanly... did you know Hatchetmen only have 6 armor on the head? Who does that?? The whole damned idea with them is to have a pilotable head to keep the pilot more safe and they skimp on the armor!?!?!? The game ends with a marginal victory for the attackers. The tanks movement has been disabled or hindered. The Cyclops is at near death, unable to stand after getting one leg blow off and the other damaged. The Vindicator suffered critical engine damage and ran off the battlefield. The Cicada remains mostly in one piece... but still just a Cicada. And the Grasshopper dead.
However both LRM carriers were lost along with the Hatchetman as they were not able to secure the area.
Next time I’ll be giving the players a bit more agency now that everyone is getting an idea for the game. We are formalizing the paperwork for the merc unit and might even make AToW characters for the game. This battle marks the end of the first arc where the focus was more to get everyone used to a persistent campaign.
Command Lance Painted
Not a whole lot to say here. Painted up a command lance reinforced with a couple tanks to act as a boss fight for my players
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Finished Paint job
I finished painting my Ogre tanks and GHQ minis I used in my last skirmish... wish I had gotten them done earlier. Oh well!
Hovercraft Strike mission
Defenders are set! The player’s targets are the two trucks. Defended by three Vedette tanks, one Hunter, two field gun platoons with three AC/5s each and three wheeled infantry platoons.
The players are bringing two condors and four saladins
The players won handily with a bit of effort required.
Whenever I do a scenario like this again I need to up the damage output a bit more as only one vehicle was destroyed... but even then only because the motive system was disabled over water. Defenders took little damage themselves as the players stayed on target and went for the objectives only taking on targets of opportunity along the way.
Close up of the infantry. I still haven’t finished painting them. Hopefully this weekend I’ll be done... Tanks and infantry are from Steve Jackson's Ogre game and GHQ miniatures
Working on more minis
Anyone who remembers that panther I was working on I finally glued to it’s rock. I have also used some clay to build out a couple bases for field gun infantry! I may build put together a few more infantry bases before I get to painting.
Hold the Line!
These four Kuritan 'Mechs were sent to break the line where Partikill Soultions were sent to hold.
Originally I set up a river cutting through the center but one of the players noted that rivers seem to always be in the middle of our matches... So I changed it up a bit...
Eventually the two lances began to tangle. The Kurtians didn’t keep it tight enough and the Catapult and Panther weren’t able to engage until later. You will also start to see small wooden hexes and dice, this is the falling artillery rounds that are on a two turn timer.
In the opening shots the Partikill Warhammer shot an arm off the Jenner.
For a few turns the Partkill Warhammer and Panther are out manuvered around terrain to prevent them from getting any good shots. The wounded Jenner with a serrious case of “PPC-fear” hugs the walls choosing to join his lance in dog piling the Hatchetman pilot that has a serious case of Target Fixation.
The vindicator spent much of his time on that hill sending PPC charged words of encouragement and weathering the hard rain.
The Hatchetman never did use his hatchet and ended up needing to Eject before his mech was scrapped. The Warhammer and Panther get back into the mix, the Panther eventually destroys the Jenner after it suffered several critical hits to the gyros and legs.
The Warhammer pilot still fearless even after getting splashed for 5 damage to the cockpit due to falling artillery decides to mix it up... and actually tanks the damage as no one is able to land any good hits. Â
At one point the battle splits off into two micro battles.
Eventually the Vindicator, like a parishioner at church being visited by Jesus, learned to walk again.
Suddenly the fight turned sour for the dracs and they begun a hasty retreat.
The panther ended up losing it’s PPC arm again and suffering significant damage during it’s duel with the Catapult. The Catapult suffered minor armor damage and ran out of missiles. However being taken out of the fight for a non significant amount of time by a light mech would easily be considered “virtual attrition” or whatever it’s called in military terms when you prevent the enemy from using it’s assets but not outright killing them.
 In the end the Drac panther was captured intact (missing leg components). The Jenner a steaming pile of scrap and the Quickdraw and catapult ran off to safety. The Hatchetman just needs it’s arms reattached and serious internal overhauls and it’ll be ready to stride again.
Deep Purple
Experimented a bit with different techniques this time around to get things done faster.
This is the result of probably 14 hours of work to get the plastic intro pieces into a reasonably OK paint job and base.
Techniques used:
Rocks/sand made from air dry clay. make a flat piece of air dry clay, let it harder, beat with a hammer. Now you have tons of easily paintable rocks!
Base coat, dark wash, highlight, then shade and dark wash until things look right.
Add different colors from the base paint job before final highlight and wash.
Mistakes made: my base coat was too dark. It looked black after the first wash and I spent a lot of time trying to make it lighter.Â
Not using Tamiya primer. I used Army Painter primer this time and while it’s some of the best primer I’ve used... Tamiya is just ridiculously good. Also ridiculously expensive so really only for people who want absolute high quality or have money to burn for the “good stuff”
Three Quick AARs in a row!
The following are three games that have taken place over the past three months.
The players are playing a mercenary group called “Partikill Solutions”
Company assets
Jumpship Invader - Base Dropships Leopard Gazelle Battlemechs Warhammer - WHM-6D Vindicator - VND-1R Hatchetman - HCT-3F Panther - PNT-9R Aerospace Reiver Reiver Vehicles Condor Condor Marksman Marksman Pike Pike Hetzer Hetzer Saladin Saladin Saladin Saladin LRM Carrier LRM Carrier Mobile HQ
The group is hired by the Lyrans to assist with an assault into Draconis space, current time is around 3010s
First missionÂ
Strike enemy airfield ahead of the main assault to prevent the Dracs from using air support.
Battlefield salvage is not possible as enemy forces will move in to support once the attack starts. Players have a limited time to get in and out.
I forgot to take more interesting pictures...
Quick rundown is that the players learned to love machine guns as they were fighting tanks and infantry primarily. We also learned infantry with field guns are amazing.
Two of our players are relatively new and kept harassing the one player that picked the mechs as all the loadouts have no machine guns and few explosive weapons making the infantry quite difficult to deal with. This is probably one of the few times in the history of battletech where players vehemently wanted machine guns loaded on their mechs.
Hatchetman pilot was angry as he wasn’t able to ax any questions.
Mission Successful
Only notable damage to the players was the Panther losing it’s PPC arm leaving it unable to participate in the followup mission as it was down for repairs.
Mission Two
Stop the strike team
Partikill Solutions are sent to stop a lance of mechs from attempting to break through the line and get to the supply lines.
Players fielded the Vindicator, Warhammer, Hatchetman, and two Condors as support.
The lance attempting to break through were a Dragon, Shadowhawk, Javelin, and Spider.
(not all mechs played by their correct mini)
First prototypes of my 3d terrain show up here.
Also apologies as this will be the most unpainted minis ever on display.
There were many congo lines of death and while the drac light mechs were utterly destroyed the Dragon and Shadowhawk made it off the board. Both suffering rear damage and the Shadowhawk suffering a gyro hit.
All Partikill Solutions assets suffered armor damage and expended tons of ammo but nothing major lost or damaged.
Mission Three
Protect the Convoy
The damaged Shadowhawk and Dragon charge towards a Lyran convoy assisted by four J. Edgars (which one of the players insisted on calling J Edgar Hoovers) using six vehicles that were covering the second line of defense.
This marks the first time that the players had to use only vehicle assets. Also the first time they have made use of air support on a three turn delay.
Partikill Assets used are four Saladins, two Pikes and two Reivers (on a three turn delay)
The vehicle rumble was very interesting, one thing I love about this campaign is getting into rulesets that no one plays with in battletech.
The combat between vehicles is incredibly dangerous as any shot could cripple or destroy you. A pike with an AC/2 in an opening barrage managed to slap the ammo bin on a J Edgar causing it to explode.
The map we use is large enough to keep Aerospace assets on the board so we are using a mix of on board aerospace and the abstract aerospace map to track their movement.
Luck being what it is for Partikill a Reiver managed to headshot the dragon with an AC/20 quickly making the fight even more one sided than it already seemed.
The J Edgars were only able to disable a transport truck but not destroy it before meeting their end. The Shadowhawk limped around as best as it could, but couldn’t survive several turns of fire from Pikes and Saladins. If the Dragon had lasted longer the mission would have been much closer.
Partikill is able to redeem themselves after letting mechs slip through their grasp and able to secure some excellent salvage to boot.
Far Country reference?!
I never thought I’d see a Far Country reference in any Battletech game...
By Kerensky what time is it?!
Well... Battletech the game is coming out tomorrow and Mechwarrior 5 was announced a while back with some alpha footage!?
I was out of it for a while because all my Battletech buddies just stopped playing anything Battletech related and I had gone off to other games.
Well I’m back here because I found a group that so far has kept to the monthly schedule so I have a few quick AARs I need to get written up and posted but until then... some work I have done for our sessions!
Hex sheets courtesy of this fellow here https://camoforrequest.blogspot.com/2015/09/first-maps-finally-done.html?m=1
Dude hasn’t posted since 2016... so maybe if enough people start commenting and throwing money at him he’ll do a bunch of sheets for roads??
I have been buying some laser cut 1.25″ wood hexes that were originally going to be bases for my miniatures then i realized that I could make double sided hex counters with them...Â
and terrain! Just requires some glue to make it nicely functional.
But who cares about only functional?! I found a spray paint that adds a sand like texture so I have some nicely textured hex based terrain!Â
Also pictured are some soft targets for people to shoot at.
You’ll see the evolution of our battlefields as time goes on through the posted pictures. The fully painted terrain and trucks only showed up in the latest mission, I have been slowly phasing out the hexpack map tiles for the custom terrain because battletech official maps aren’t truely 1.25″ wide hexes as I discovered when I used this awesome roll out map https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FY6YTEW/ which helps make battles feel more epic and less claustrophobic.Â
Battletech RPG!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/webeharebrained/battletech
First I have to say I’m absolutely excited for this “Reboot” of the franchise. They are playing it in the era I absolutely love and given their work on the Shadowrun games I have full confidence this is going to be the best Battletech game ever on the PC.
So... well... nothing really much to say. The one thing I will leave off on is something others are excited for but I don’t care much about in this case. The multiplayer PvP stuff might be good, it might be bad, it won’t effect me one way or the other. Megamek gives me pretty much all I wanted out of an online battletech game... although the interface needs a massive overhaul and cleaning...
But yea, a game I feel excited for “pre-ordering”!  It has been far too long! :D
And look! MORE Marauders.
BattleTech has had some great announcements the last few months. Catalyst began in July show-casing our re-imagined Warhammer.
Then the great crew at Harebrained Schemes up-notch-kicked that something fierce with the news they would shortly launch a Kickstarter for a turn-based PC BattleTech game.
Then Monday Piranha Games joined the deluge in style, posting up a pre-order for their re-imagine Marauder for MechWarrior Online.
Well, Piranha showed us theirs, so only fair we show them ours…this final line drawing of our re-imagined Marauder just came in this morning and as usual, immediately sharing.
As I’m working on scripts for some short videos to go along with HBS BattleTech Kickstarter, watching this re-imagined artwork flowing in for our coming Combat Manuals (and other books), and salivating at the idea of playing a Warhammer in MechWarrior Online…what a great time to be a BattleTech fan.
Next few years are gonna be one amazing ride!
Randall
It’s amazing to see Battletech go through a rebirth. I grew up reading the books and watching the Saturday morning cartoon and watched it just fizzle and die. Now with redesigns that look like damn good re-imagining of the original Japanese designs, a new video game that will concentrate on the story of the universe during one of my favorite eras... it’s a great day.
BattleTech Returning To PC
Just posted an announcement concerning the return of BattleTech to turn-based PC-action through Jordan Weisman’s coming BATTLETECH.
In there I provide a short walk down memory lane of my first encounter with BattleTech 29 years ago. Namely this cover to the scenario pack The Fox’s Teeth: Exploits of McKinnon’s Raiders.Â
I was instantly captivated. And while the years weigh some on this style from 1986, Jim Halloway’s work still evokes a certain feel of a war-torn universe of desperate salvage and mighty warriors.
When I saw this art for the coming BATTLETECH game, I immediately had a similar moment from 29 years ago. The might and majesty and heraldic pageantry of the BattleTech universe, where warriors make the difference on any battlefield.
I hope you’re as excited as I am…I’m literally bouncing in my seat as I type this and finally get to share some of what I’ve been working on with Jordan.
So strap in, and calibrate your neurohelmet: reactor online, sensors online, weapons online, all systems nominal. It’s gonna be a ride we’ll all be enjoying for a long time to come!
Randall
I’m so excited for this. Also here’s a Sarna link to the Interview!
Another Campaign Begins
Yet another group to keep track of
My Sword and Dragon campaign has been slowing down due to conflicting schedules. So I’m starting up a new campaign, this time starting around 3076. More importantly, everything will be done online using MegaMek... and rolld20.net! Yes indeed after... decades... (god damn i’m old) I’ll finally be  playing a Battletech RPG again!
The RPG elements will be light and we are considering Traveler from the good  old Mongoose publishing days or BESM 3rd edition. Both systems I enjoy a lot and I am leaning on BESM because since 2nd ed it has held a special place in my heart and imo BESM 3rd is probably one of the best RPG systems made. Sure you can still power game with it... but by that metric ATOW for Battletech is horrendously broken and unusable and even MORE difficult to put in artificial limits on your players to keep them from becoming ultra tech ninjas.
Really, you are starting in THAT timeline?!
So what’s with the 3067 timeline starting with the Jihad? Well the players wanted to use the latest and greatest tech while also being from the Inner Sphere. So after recently reading the two novels involving the Black Thorns I decided they will be a lance within that doomed group pulling garrison duty on the world of Galedon V. Most of the  group, while pretty well versed in Battletech lore, have little to no knowledge of the Jihad era or even heard of  this particular merc group. It should be a lot of fun. >:D
Also the more I read about the Jihad the more it seems it is actually a pretty fun time for a small merc group to play in. Tech is going completely schizophrenic, the constant conflicts being instigated by World of Blake open a lot of opportunities for counter espionage, and the stakes are entire planets being wiped out!Â
Black Thorns eh... Why again exactly?
I liked the novels following the group, even though DRT had tons of wasted opportunities, and I feel it being closer to the old succession wars novels than anything else. I was sad to hear about their ultimate fate in the opening years of the Jihad but when I started to put this group together and asked them what they were looking for in a campaign I had a vision of what the Black Thorns would look like in 3067 and how much fun it would be to have the players uncover Word Of Blake nonsense occuring on the planet, failing at containing the Curse of Galedon, and frantically escaping the planet with the bulk of the Black Thorns being utterly destroyed by any number of things that destroy the planet of Galedon V.
Some changes I’ve made is now they are a reinforced company with a Union Dropship and a Leopard. The Leopard is the personal ship of the recon lance and is sent ahead of the main force. I figure at this point in the units history they have had many successful campaigns and became flush with money after the events detailed in DRT allowing the group to have the latest tech available and able to afford a dedicated recon dropship to assist with information gathering when en route to a mission.
