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Jarvisi posted:Is it worth trying to play this game on paper? Everyone seems to say it's digital for life. I have a bunch of battlemechs and some battletech maps I'm sure I could whip up a one shot NPCs have a bunch of moving parts so you'll want a bunch of index cards or to print off screen shots of their stat blocks from COMP/CON. BattleTech map sheets are about 20x30 hexes so you can do a small fight on one sheet or a big fight on two sheets. Medium fights you can overlap the sheets for a 30x30 board.
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Jarvisi posted:Is it worth trying to play this game on paper? Everyone seems to say it's digital for life. I have a bunch of battlemechs and some battletech maps I'm sure I could whip up a one shot I DM with paper on a dry-erase hex map with tokens I had to make myself, I don't even use COMP/CON, just keeping track of HP and cooldowns on notebook paper though I do keep my laptop beside me to reference stats. It's been fun. Map I made of warehouses that the party were searching.  Tokens glued to cardboard stock prior to cutting.  I am not a good artist.
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Apr 5, 2024 16:00
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I have a Chessex battlemat that's around 30x50 hexes and a ton of Battletech maps and minis. Drawing out a map for Solstice Rain takes a very long time. I can't wait until we finish it and I can move to BT maps and some cut out paper buildings. Right now I'm using retrograde minis paper cutouts for OPFOR as there's a OSR faction set for them. I use a tablet with Comp/Con in desktop mode for NPCs and my players use I the mobile version for their characters. 
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Apr 5, 2024 18:40
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I don't think it's any worse than D&D 4e on paper, and probably a lot better if you're using compcon on a laptop
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40 Proof Listerine posted:NPCs have a bunch of moving parts so you'll want a bunch of index cards or to print off screen shots of their stat blocks from COMP/CON. Bt maps are like 17x17 if you include the partial spaces in the gutter, since a bt hex is way bigger than an inch.
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ShineDog posted:Bt maps are like 17x17 if you include the partial spaces in the gutter, since a bt hex is way bigger than an inch. Thanks, that'll teach me to not double check my numbers - on average 15 columns and 17 rows, and if you smush two of them together hamburger style that's where I was getting my "20"x30 maps and 30x30 maps from. Sarna.net has a good breakdown: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Map_Sheets
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Yeah, this was what led to me deciding against them. I think 20x30 is about the least you'd really want for a lancer game if you don't wnat everything to be a knife fight, with 25-35 being the ideal. That's why I ended up not going for battletech maps, since they have basically a 1.25 inch footprint that just ends up too big for our table once you factor in space for character sheets and stuff.
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Apr 7, 2024 14:31
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I like to mix up the map size and congestedness a lot, but I think you need to be able to get a 40x40 map onto the table every once in a while to play up long range or fast NPCs.
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Apr 7, 2024 23:07
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Armed to the Teeth
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I'm getting a bad feeling about this group called The Shermans, like maybe they aren't totally the good guys? That quad gun Morgana is hilarious though.
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"Divert local asteroids onto the battefield"... Planet Waves But A Mech? 
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