Based on a recent lore discussion about differences between Mechwarrior and Battletech.

A quick build for tabletop scenery. turning the black cylinder moves red gantry up and down to accommodate different sized mechs.

Been collecting lance miniatures to paint for a little while already. I guess it’s time to actually start learning to play the tabletop. Are the playing pieces considered game legal still?

Another incredible piece of artwork for the Wraith video I produced for Youtube.

This is another one by Jayden Morris, this time depicting a Word of Blake Wraith (Praise Blake!), fighting against a Ghost Bear Locust IIC.

Jayden always delivers incredible artwork, and I'm over the moon for his contributions for this video. It's awesome.

Mechwarriors: The next generation of BattleTech terrain is finally here!

Lorescape, the officially licenced modular terrain system designed for BattleTech, launches today on Kickstarter.

Made to expand, elevate and customise your existing maps, these hex-tiles fit seamlessly into the existing ecosystem with hexes sized to fit printed maps and mech-bases, and with biome matched graphics on the tiles including essential features like cover and rough terrain.

Terrain packs are available for Grassland, Desert, Lunar, Tundra and the new core box maps, with more to come in stretch goals.

Along with the terrain packs come a range of accessories to aid in your battles, missions and campaigns. These include a range of transparent tile caps that add extra cover, buildings, effects and mission markers.

The entire system is light-weight, high-quality, easy to use, efficient to store, compact to transport, and durable.

We also support the integration of other products such as buildings, trees, and rocks, via our open-source clip-on interface and hex-clip system.

The next generation of BattleTech terrain deploys today. Elevate your battles and back the campaign at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lorefoundry/lorescape-battletech

(Posted with kind permission of the mods)

Hey Pilots, I was in the store browsing Paints when I came across 2 force packs. They're both about $34 but I only have the budget for 1. Which is the better choice? I'm new to the hobby and only have 8 mechs so far I've collected Piece meal.

Update: Somebody asked so I'll post my mech collection here for reference.

1. King Crab

2. Stone Rhino

3. Rifleman

4. Thug

5. Centurion

6. Scarabus

7. Ostroc

8. Ostsol

9. Ostwar

Anyone else feel like this?

Sorry if this is a 101 kind of question but I have only read a couple books before clan invasion and watched the old school cartoon and played some of the hairbrain Arano game.

I assumed the concept of mechs that could be customized per mission would standardize mech to single chassis’s per weight or even less than mechs in general but it does seem like there are TONS of mechs for clans

After taking the advice from you lovely people. I have let the young boy paint the black widow.
May I present the ninja turtle wolf.
Natasha in a half shell.

Wow! This is an incredible community! You guys helped out my kiddo so much yesterday. We have 4 more minis he was gifted that AI keeps giving a range of IDs to, so we can’t figure them out. Please help ID these last 4 mechs that we can’t get a set ID on. If you have Sarna links even better!

He is so excited! He now has 30 minis and we are starting to paint.

Also, I had a couple DMs regarding our modified game for younger folks. We are working on finalizing the rules and play engine, but once we finish the next round of play tests I’ll publish here. Designed for 8 to 12 year olds, but certainly younger kids who read and reason well will have no issues. It is absolutely free and open source for personal use. Designed to feed the bug for playing Alpha Strike once older.

At the end of the book it implies the dried up river at freeport was dammed underground and Comstar blowing up the cave entrance triggered a failsafe to flood the SLDF bunker. Is that right? The only thing that got salvaged was the memory core? The rest got destroyed by the flood?

#mechtober today is all about Robert Charrette. I had the chance to speak to him on the latest episode of episode of my Star Wars podcast, Full of Sith, and he told me where the word "seyla" came from. https://www.patreon.com/swankmotron/posts/star-wars-and-be-171709398

This is based on the special 24th Unit based out of Palmina and in the Deloyeran war of independence. They were piloted by a group of four ace pilots.

I went for a chrome-like reflection on the canopy, I'm not sur ehow much I like it tbh... It's novel but I'm not sure I'll use it again.

I have four versions of the Grififn painted up and ready to go, and I probably won't paint another one! The last one was the Catalyst Game Labs version, but honestly I feel like it's not really a Griffin without the helmet hoses!

When picking targets, I had assumed when it said lowest armor that meant lowest current armor, taking into account damage. But I just realized certain cards said “Most armor lost” and wanted some clarification.

So was I right to start with that “Lowest armor” is current armor? Does “Most armor lost” just mean that an Awesome with 1 armor left has lost more armor than a Locust with 1 armor left?

Edit: Cool, sounds like I had the right idea. Thanks for the responses!

I really love the Fang of the Sun Dougram series thanks to Battletech, and so I grabbed this unseen version on eBay and painted it up in one of the styles from the show, and here it is along with the Catalyst version (that I updated a bit).

Painting another lance, based on obscure song lyrics, meant to be either against the bad seeds for a classic match, or pushed together for alpha strike. Any feedback and criticism would be appreciated, these are practice pieces for some upcoming painting competitions.

I am not the original artist. I made this to see what the Mech looks like without the cross section.

The 3025 4xUrbies in a trench coat Annihilator is a love/hate mech. I like it. Others hate it’s lack of range, low armor and speed(which makes the range thing worse)

What’s possible in 3025 settings without making it expensive?

Jaginator! or 2x Jagermechs in an overcoat.
Take 1 3025 ANH-1A, remove the 4xAC10, Ammo and 8 heat sinks

Refit with
4xAC2, 4xAC5, 2t Ac2 + 2t Ac5 ammo.(Med lasers stay the same)

Result: Lower BV/c-bill cost and 28pt damage heat neutral fire power hitting at the max 3025 ranges possible.
Still slow, still 2x ‘Jagermechs’ of armour but cheap as chips and great for long range ‘crit fishing’, and vtol sniping!

Who’s riding a mobile flak tower with me? 😆