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I've read up on the Solaris 7 map from mechanical frogs planet primer and I've been interested in the idea of having an entire hive city style planet for a campaign I want to run and I need to ask if that's ever been done before

I'm playing an escalation with some friends and I'm looking for more plasma weapon mechs. I like making my friends have to be weary of over heating. I'm already playing a Grendel Configuration I. Next we are adding a light mech and I wanna add to the plasma fun.

The Coolant Pod is back with another force pack review - the Clan Cavalry Star. Featuring special guest, FunkSoulBrother, we talk through the pros and cons of the units and their variants for both Classic and Alpha Strike. Enjoy!

https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/the-coolant-pod/episodes/Ep32---Charge-of-the-Clan-Brigade-e2rpuqf/a-ablmpan

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My friends and I are have enjoyed the couple of one-off games we’ve played. We’ve done both Classic BattleTech with all its crunchy goodness, and we’ve played a few games of Alpha Strike.

We’ve enjoyed both, but as fans of MW5:M, we want to try our hand at a Mercenary Company campaign. I’ve googled looking for resources, but outside of the Operations Books (Campaign, Interstellar) there doesn’t seem to be much.

I’ve found an older blog from 2020ish that has some running commentary about an ongoing campaign the author is running for his son and that really got my juices flowing.

Does anyone know of any resources, official or fan-made, that can assist in setting up and helping run such an endeavor?

Hi! I have a really heavy collection I inherited but wanted more light and medium mechs, what boxes do you guys recommend getting (other than the urban mech lance the trash cans come later and I don’t use clans)

Who would be up for making tons of lore about various different mech weapons and how they're developed I even have this idea for a clan-based laser spear gun And it's inspired by all those like laser staff seen in Star wars that shoot beams of energy

Love the sheet app but, it's hard on a tiny screen.

I'm playing a Chaos Campaign at my FLGS with a fellow enjoyer of CBT, it's been a great time but the games stretch on and we're relatively inexperienced with limited time for games.

I'm going to suggest restricting our turn time for our game tomorrow, what times do you think are reasonable? Do you think it'd be better to have an overall allotted time per player, per phase(movement, weapon attack)? For each full round(Initiative-end)?

I am looking to buy the official mech sheets, I just like having their PDFs on hand, I know there are free sources like MegaMek I'll use that stuff too that's fine, but for the purpose of purchasing Technical Readouts and other stuff there's a lot.

I see record sheets for Succession Wars Clan invasion TR: 3145 Jihad Dark Age TR: 3150

Is there overlap in these products?

I'm looking at buying a bunch of this and the Tech Readouts like Recognition Guide, Vol 1 classics, ect...

Is there any big overlap I should know about.

So this up coming weekend, I plan on painting my A Game of Armored Combat, and I was thinking of using some browns to make maybe a desert or jungle like camo. What color of Primer do you think would be best to use? I have Citadel Chaos Black, Citadel Wraith Bone, and Grey for primer. Since the box set has 8 mechs. I could technically do two sets of two color then for the last two I could do any base primer to see which one I really liked the best. Just would like some thoughts and opinions on what would make the best primer color since it affects how dark/light paint can go onto the fig.

So the ONLY gaming store in my area flat out told me today that they will not ever order any Battletech stuff. They say it’s not popular enough. The thing is…I know that statement is patently false! There are three gaming stores in Shrrveport, about two hours to the south and they say they can’t keep Battletech on the shelf. I tried telling them this and I was ignored. I was just about to take it personally when I looked around the store and realized that this was a store that was owned and run by a poser. I looked around. There was hardly any D&D stuff and what was there was hidden. No warhammer stuff. Lots of Yugio stuff. Lots of Manga. Lots of bad Anime stuff. And trinkets. The games they did sell looked like they went through a catalogue to randomly pick stuff to sell. They can sell what they want. It’s their store, I get that… i also understand that I can order stuff from Catalyst myself. it’s just annoying. It’s like, when I started talking about Battletech, they thought, “A nerd!! Screw this guy!!” Has anyone else run into this sort of thing ?

Behold the personal Regent of Grandmaster Goodnight of the Knights Defensor!

Does anyone out there use TableTop Simulator? I ask because I have used it to play Alpha Strike once. I live out in the sticks and I don’t really have a group that I can play Battletech with. If anyone is interested please let me know. You can play Battletech classic, alpha strike, and it even has Succession Wars, the old board game where you play as one of the great houses. If anyone is interested please let me know here or on Steam—my name is Smiluk1508 on Steam.

I'm slowly making my way through the Proliferation Cycle box and wanted to paint them up in the elite colors of their respective Houses. So far I have the Battleaxe in Davion Heavy Guards and the Ymir in Lyran Guards colors. I was also planning on painting the Gladiator in Sword of Light colors. Of course the Mackie will be in Terran Hegemony/SLDF olive drab.

I'm just not sure who would be the equivalent in FWL or Capellan forces for the Icarus II and Firebee.

Heya all. Looking to get into battletech (either classic or alpha strike or both since you can use the same models) and have been devouring videos on YouTube for awhile now. One thing I have been noticing in is the game boils down quite quickly into a stand and shoot showdown and I am wondering if that is just because I have come across battle reports lacking higher tier objectives? If you could share some of your tactical experiences with the game I would appreciate it, or even a YouTube battle report of one that would be great because I am struggling to find the use of tactics and positioning. It seems like everyone walks directly towards each other regardless of what is on the map until they are in range and just start shooting everything until someone blows up.

Hello everyone! Has anyone managed to purchase McCarron's Armored Cavalry Assault Lance yet? Could you please share the Alpha Strike cards for this set? I would be very grateful!