Battletech: Clan Wolf is "Licensed to il"

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Sidesaddle Cavalry: Mar 15, 2013; Oh Boy Desert Map

Flipswitch posted:

Painted my first miniature in ....several years, a Victor for a local game event!

# ? Jul 31, 2023 01:43

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 19:34

Nebalebadingdong: Jun 30, 2005; i made a video game.
why not give it a try!?

brigade models monorail is coming along. i think its a perfect fit for battletech

# ? Jul 31, 2023 04:28

PoptartsNinja: May 9, 2008; He is still almost definitely not a spy; Soiled Meat

That's perfect for BattleTech. Where'd you get that one?

# ? Jul 31, 2023 04:52

Kesper North: Nov 3, 2011; EMERGENCY POWER TO PARTY

Nebalebadingdong posted:

brigade models monorail is coming along. i think its a perfect fit for battletech

Rad. Could put some broken mech limbs or partial chassis on the empty cargo flat if you wanted. Could even incorporate that into your scenarios as potential salvage.

# ? Jul 31, 2023 05:36

a cyborg mug: Mar 8, 2010

PoptartsNinja posted:

That's perfect for BattleTech. Where'd you get that one?

https://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/Monorail.html

# ? Jul 31, 2023 06:13

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

What kind of composition should one go for at low BV values with no restriction on era, only that it has to be mechs only?

At 6k, an decent assault class machine is pushing 2,500 +, leaving very little room for anything else.

Should you try to do high tech, powerful units and only bring 2, or go for the quantity approach and bring 4/5 pilots and a full lance?

# ? Jul 31, 2023 07:13

lilljonas: May 6, 2007; We got crabs? We got crabs!

Technowolf posted:

Just imagine the lovingly rendered scales on a Steel Viper 'Mech

poo poo I was wondering what I�d do for clan mechs and now I want to try this

# ? Jul 31, 2023 11:45

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
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If you wanna do scales then some of the Ghost regiments have dragons coiling around their mechs. That's a good way to go blind trying.

# ? Jul 31, 2023 14:04

Crazy Joe Wilson: Jul 4, 2007; Justifiably Mad!

Flipswitch posted:

Painted my first miniature in ....several years, a Victor for a local game event!

I really like the cockpit color you used here, is it a copper or off-gold?

# ? Jul 31, 2023 15:01

Strobe: Jun 30, 2014; GW BRAINWORMS CREW

lilljonas posted:

poo poo I was wondering what I�d do for clan mechs and now I want to try this

https://camospecs.com/unit/beta-galaxy-10/

# ? Jul 31, 2023 16:57

biosterous: Feb 23, 2013

Saint Celestine posted:

What kind of composition should one go for at low BV values with no restriction on era, only that it has to be mechs only?

At 6k, an decent assault class machine is pushing 2,500 +, leaving very little room for anything else.

Should you try to do high tech, powerful units and only bring 2, or go for the quantity approach and bring 4/5 pilots and a full lance?

more mechs = more dice to roll on offense, and less damage concentration on defense

# ? Jul 31, 2023 20:43

FishFood: Apr 1, 2012; Now with brine shrimp!

I think 6k BV is a nice sweet spot for an IS Clan Invasion/LSW lance. I like making a lance with one mech of each size and I usually have enough left over for one or two skill upgrades.

# ? Jul 31, 2023 21:03

LaSquida: Nov 1, 2012; Just keep on walkin'.

...is there no official Thunderbolt in plastic?!

# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:14

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

It's in the core box.

ETA: "how come I can't get popular core box mechs in lance packs?" is a valid question though.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:17

Strobe: Jun 30, 2014; GW BRAINWORMS CREW

LaSquida posted:

...is there no official Thunderbolt in plastic?!

There are two. One in the Game of Armored Combat box, the other in the Eridani Light Horse Hunter Lance that's currently a Barnes & Noble exclusive. The ELH one can modeled jumping.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:18

LaSquida: Nov 1, 2012; Just keep on walkin'.

Barnes & Noble exclusive battletech minis...what a world we live in.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:24

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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LaSquida posted:

Barnes & Noble exclusive battletech minis...what a world we live in.

People forget that they also carried the GW Fellowship of the Ring miniatures core box when that came out two decades ago. It was great when they decided to stop carrying them because I was able to get one for dirt loving cheap on clearance.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 02:59

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

I forget about B&N exclusives because they may as well not exist this side of the world. I remain hopeful that the Target exclusive will end up in Tesco here though.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 03:10

LaSquida: Nov 1, 2012; Just keep on walkin'.

Is there a good battletech discord these days? (Especially for Alpha Strike?)

# ? Aug 1, 2023 05:29

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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It's been a hot minute since I picked up a paintbrush, so I decided to give this little Crab some friends.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 07:17

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

LaSquida posted:

Is there a good battletech discord these days? (Especially for Alpha Strike?)

The reddit one is fairly active

# ? Aug 1, 2023 16:53

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

We used to have #megamek on SynIRC. We could make a new goon BattleTech server if people were even slightly interested.

# ? Aug 1, 2023 19:24

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Arquinsiel posted:

We used to have #megamek on SynIRC. We could make a new goon BattleTech server if people were even slightly interested.

I say we should, Battletech seems to be going through a revival of sorts lately.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 04:28

Sidesaddle Cavalry: Mar 15, 2013; Oh Boy Desert Map

That's what they said in 2007. That's also what they said in 2013. I don't think all the pieces are quite in play yet.

The audience is ready and willing, but the product isn't as laser-focused as it needs to be.

yeah sure why not

# ? Aug 2, 2023 06:17

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:

That's what they said in 2007. That's also what they said in 2013. I don't think all the pieces are quite in play yet.

The audience is ready and willing, but the product isn't as laser-focused as it needs to be.

yeah sure why not

Well if a certain other games company keeps raising prices...

Also my LGS started a battletech tournament and apparently 19 people signed up. The problem (I think) is that theyre allowing only the manual and total warfare, mechs only, and no era restriction.

You would think the exclusion of tac ops would exclude a lot of the crazier stuff, but nope. Hardened armor, arrow IV, etc, are all in the battletech manual.

Which is going to result in some new player bringing 4x 3050 mechs and getting wrecked by some ilclan force.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 14:32

Strobe: Jun 30, 2014; GW BRAINWORMS CREW

Saint Celestine posted:

Which is going to result in some new player bringing 4x 3050 mechs and getting wrecked by some ilclan force.

Skill issue.

But seriously, BV does a pretty good job of making this a fair fight and I wouldn't feel like I was going in at a disadvantage even with a bunch of introtech of the event is capping number of units and BV.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 14:39

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

Saint Celestine posted:

The reddit one is fairly active

The megamek discord has channels for not-megamek battletech too

# ? Aug 2, 2023 15:48

Arquinsiel: Jun 1, 2006; "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."

God Bless Margaret Thatcher
God Bless England
RIP My Iron Lady

Saint Celestine posted:

Well if a certain other games company keeps raising prices...

Also my LGS started a battletech tournament and apparently 19 people signed up. The problem (I think) is that theyre allowing only the manual and total warfare, mechs only, and no era restriction.

You would think the exclusion of tac ops would exclude a lot of the crazier stuff, but nope. Hardened armor, arrow IV, etc, are all in the battletech manual.

Which is going to result in some new player bringing 4x 3050 mechs and getting wrecked by some ilclan force.

I like how the European Battletech Championship tournament format sets out a number of specific choices you can pick in each round and part of the skill is knowing which choices are good fits together and if you risk going with a less powerful mech for a better pilot or whatever. There are variants on the format where you get to pick between specific pairs, or a column A + column B setup, but they all encourage you to try out variants that you might otherwise overlook or just never bother with for faction reasons. Took me a while to grok the logic of doing it this way, but I now quite appreciate it. Free choice can result in people getting overwhelmed by all the options.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 16:19

Saint Celestine: Dec 17, 2008; Lay a fire within your soul and another between your hands, and let both be your weapons.
For one is faith and the other is victory and neither may ever be put out.
- Saint Sabbat, Lessons; Grimey Drawer

Arquinsiel posted:

I like how the European Battletech Championship tournament format sets out a number of specific choices you can pick in each round and part of the skill is knowing which choices are good fits together and if you risk going with a less powerful mech for a better pilot or whatever. There are variants on the format where you get to pick between specific pairs, or a column A + column B setup, but they all encourage you to try out variants that you might otherwise overlook or just never bother with for faction reasons. Took me a while to grok the logic of doing it this way, but I now quite appreciate it. Free choice can result in people getting overwhelmed by all the options.

Yes, some sort of restrictions I think would help, even a era cap. This free for all with anything goes has the potential to bring gamey stuff, and then now I'm trying to think of stuff to counter their gamey stuff.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:26

ilmucche: Mar 16, 2016; What did you say the strategy was?

Do anything gives me choice paralysis. Heck, I get frozen trying to decide what colour to paint my models

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:31

Owlbear Camus: Jan 3, 2013; Maybe this guy that flies is just sort of passing through, you know?

ilmucche posted:

Do anything gives me choice paralysis. Heck, I get frozen trying to decide what colour to paint my models

paint them like the giants from attack on titan

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:36

Defiance Industries: Jul 22, 2010; A five-star manufacturer

ilmucche posted:

Do anything gives me choice paralysis. Heck, I get frozen trying to decide what colour to paint my models

2nd Donegal Guards, they're never off the table.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:39

Z the IVth: Jan 28, 2009; The trouble with your "expendable machines"; Fun Shoe

I realised that you can find a home for whatever Battletech scheme you try out within any faction since they'll almost certainly be some random merc unit with those exact colours in each faction.

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:49

ilmucche: Mar 16, 2016; What did you say the strategy was?

Oh all my dudes are different colours. Patchwork mechs that all look weird

# ? Aug 2, 2023 17:52

FrostyPox: Feb 8, 2012

When I finish painting the stuff I have I wanna do a goofy Mercenary company but I don't know if I want to do pink and white or go red and yellow cuz McMercenaries (I'm Lovin' It)

# ? Aug 2, 2023 22:19

FrostyPox: Feb 8, 2012

A company of UrbanMech's painted like astromech droids from Star Wars. I'm sure that's been done to death

# ? Aug 2, 2023 22:20

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

a cyborg mug posted:

https://www.brigademodels.co.uk/6mmSF/Monorail.html

Purchased! Thank you, these seem really cool!

# ? Aug 3, 2023 00:04

I said come in!: Jun 22, 2004

ilmucche posted:

Oh all my dudes are different colours. Patchwork mechs that all look weird

Same! I prefer to paint all of my mechs different colors as well. I just get bored painting miniatures the same color schemes over and over again.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 00:05

Atlas Hugged: Mar 12, 2007; Put your arms around me,
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ilmucche posted:

Oh all my dudes are different colours. Patchwork mechs that all look weird

High five buddy!

# ? Aug 3, 2023 01:05

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# ? Jun 5, 2024 19:34

Revvik: Jul 29, 2006; Fun Shoe

Red and black. Are they the Kell Hounds? Are they Wolf�s Dragoons? Are they Draconis Combine? Ad fuckin nausea.

# ? Aug 3, 2023 02:48

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