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Hi folks,

My friends and I have been playing Battletech, for several decades, using the above rules compendium plus Technical Readouts 3025, 3050, & 3055.

Battletech seems to have come back into favour in a number of my local wargames clubs and I'd like to catch up with the rules changes in order to join some games but I'm not sure which books. Is anyone able to tell me which books I'd need to buy in order to update my existing rulebooks to the latest ruleset please? Or are these old books still relevant today?

Many thanks all.

There have been some posts lately asking about things like the Command Console and Quirks or rules that manipulate Initiative. I was wondering how many people use them in their own games, campaigns, or tournaments. And also, if it could be shared, the reasoning behind your choices.

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See a lot of MWO style ones but nothing that is similar to the current Battletech recent releases. Looking to do some bronze casts but don’t see any models of the newer style

My favorite era is Civil War. To me it feels like the sweet spot where the inner sphere now has interesting tech so sphere and clan are both distinct and different yet clan isn't so Mary-Sue like during the invasion where its just same but better in every way to the sphere's. But it's before the tech jumps the shark in later eras and starts going a bit wild with plasma and coil guns ect, and merging clan and inner sphere mechs together so they lose their individual identities. (Inner sphere omni mechs are heresy in my opinion. Lol)

What's your favorite era and why.

I'm spending my birthday today getting blitzed and painting.

Best day ever.

I have a Warhammer rocking Infernos. My ammo explodes. Due to having CASE the center torso and head are spared from the ammo explosion and my pilot does not eject. But because I have an extra light engine, the Mac is incapacitated by the loss of the side torso. However, since a ton of inferno ammo just blew up, my Mech and my hex are on fire. Does my pilot have to wait inside the incapacitated Warhammer until the fire goes out before he can exit the Mech without being instantly killed by the Inferno just as if he were any infantry?

OK, so as I understand, it case blows out an ammo explosion. It’s still destroys the location that it’s in, but it stops the damage from transferring. But case is in a torture location, which it usually is, and that unit has an interfere extra light engine then the unit suffers three critical engine hits and is destroyed regardless of the fact that it had case. Sure, the pilot doesn’t have to eject, and there is more salvage left and no risk of a catastrophic explosion, but in a typical tabletop game outside of a campaign context that doesn’t really matter. So why put on an extra light if you’re not playing a campaign? It’s just wasted tonnage and crit space. And the clans get case automatically, so the fact that they only have two extra slots in the side torso, all allows them to survive that location, destruction, but they didn’t have to spend the ton on case anyway, so it’s still pointless. or am I missing something?

Also what technology was behind the Wall?

My friend got me into MW5 and I’ve been watching a lot of videos about the setting from Tex talks BattleTech, I’m ordering the starter box later today and was wondering where do you find people to play board games with? I’ve never done anything like this before but BattleTech presses my buttons just right from everything I’ve been listening to on YouTube and reading off Sarna. Also if I wanted to read some of the novels what would you recommend to a new comer.

All Hail The Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery!

I've produced a review of the premium Stormcrow miniature from CGL that I recently purchased.

Interested to hear what you think of it and your own experiences with the CGL premium models. I'm very torn between the pros - sharp details and parts options and cons - material.

https://youtu.be/rVnTaR0QWz0

So, Alaric Ward gets a lot of hate. Like no, there's some serious dislike. And he's built a Wolf Empire with a bunch of Wolf Mechs. An entire line of mechs that are all named Wolf like George Foreman naming all his kids Nightwolf. Wait, no.

Anyway. There's one thing he's lacking now that he's basically become a lame-duck supervillain that everyone's trying to topple - Wunderwaffe. Can't have an empire without those.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Wolf-Wolf. It adds together the tonnages of the Timberwolf / Savage Wolf and mk II; mk III omitted. It uses the most common weapons among all Wolf mechs, and throws them all onto one mech. Alaric would be proud. Probably because he doesn't recognize the sarcasm.

... Does it have enough heat sinks? It might need more heat sinks.

It might not have enough armor, either.

As someone who is still quite new to the setting, just having binged way too many videos about the clans at the moment. Is the story / narrative still on going? Like ACTUALLY moving forward with new books and such? Or is in in a Warhammer state where it's endless "this is also happening"?

I stumbled across the Black Pants Legion on Youtube and I have binged both the Amaris Civil War and From Exodus to Elementals series.

Is he stupid. He managed to destroy his entire Touman all so he could rebuild the star league again. He finally accomplished the clan dream and basically every power went “didn’t ask, don’t care.” Lyrans and free worlds league look eager in take a nice bite out of the Wolf empire. Meanwhile the Fedsun are busy fighting the Combine. God knows what the Combine is up to. All the clans either don’t care, are pissed or have been destroyed. Only the Capellans care and that’s because Daoshen is pissed he didn’t get to destroy the Republic.

His league consists of himself, half of Jade Falcons and the remains of smoke jaguar. He could have had the Dominion as an ally, but he decided to be a cunt and plung the whole nation into a civil war.

Honestly forming the star league seems like a bad idea, the first one only worked due to the age of war, and even then half the members were at each other’s throats before the coup.

So does he have a plan or has he just too inbreed to understand why the republic went under, at least Stone had the Wall to stop the inevitable.

Curious to see and try out some fan-made loadout for good old Centurion.

PS: to make this more interesting, we'll won't be using Lostech.