#battletech gothic

[astralmight]

Black Marauder design based on the Gothic design of the Marauder and the abominations they've shown

[gorillastraylight]

Bought and opened a BattleTech: Gothic salvage box after my alpha strike game last night and managed to pull a King Crab!

So the question now is - what am I gonna paint it up as? I think it would be fun to use a Space Marine or Chaos Space Marine colour scheme - I’m leaning iron warriors, but I figure perhaps Tumblr will have some ideas :)

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Found on the AUX. "Battletech: Gothic"

[is-the-battlemech-cool-or-not]

[srastrix]

Gothic Scorpion painted as a custom pirate scheme. I plan to add extra guns to him and turn him into a monster down the road. Good start at least.

[sracygnus]

This asshole took me 2 months to paint and i still managed to ruin it in the end. love him tho.

[ironglorfindel]

So, Battletech Gothic. It's untread ground. Battletech hasn't really done anything like this before. It's pretty clearly targeting the 40k crowd, even the name is pretty close to Battlefleet Gothic. I think it's a smart choice, Battletech growing is good for all of us, and having a box that might catch someone's eye is a good way to do that.

I can definitely understand the wariness though. As someone who loves the Magic The Gathering aesthetic, the "Universes Beyond" endeavor has been... fracturing. It's been a rough year for MtG. The UB sets are shit like Jurassic Park and Dr Who and Spongebob, and the non-UB sets have been just Magic characters wearing hats. Everybody's a detective/cowboy/80s horror/etc. It's been pretty annihilating to the Magic aesthetic it's cultivated over 30 years. So like, I get the very real concern over the Fortnite-ification of Battletech.

However, I think this is a (tentatively) good direction. In part because Battletech's continuity is in actuality, pretty dang small. We've already got the most iconic mechs from the Star League era, the Succession War era, and the Clan Invasion era. Jihad era mechs are already announced. That means that we're gonna hit the ilClan wall in just a few years time. So to delay that, it makes sense to expand outwards, and not just forwards.

We're already seeing it with Gothic, and with that Twilight Imperium lookin boardgame too. Personally? I am tentatively excited. I like most of the Gothic sculpts, even if some of them aren't my style. Maybe we'll get to see some official PGI sculpt miniatures. That'd be rad as hell. A teethy Black Marauder sculpt maybe? Keep it ambiguously canon by making it in a side continuity.

There's potential here.

[tinierpurplefishes]

BattleTech Gothic Prey Pyre Pirate Band

Finally got around to finishing these guys since I restocked my orange paints that dried out. I haven't done anything in this style in a while, but it when I got my hands on the Gothic models, I knew it was the way I had to go with them. Came out a bit sloppier than I hoped, but it still works well at tabletop distances.

Next up, I'm taking a break from the big projects, with another one off that I've been thinking about for years, and finally got around to.