Good one! XD

Lmao amen. My brother has a stinger and I make it a point to destroy it immediately for fun and an extra VP

It's a great way to learn the game too (new player here). I love how classic Battletech is played but can only handle one mech at a time comfortably so Alpha strike is awesome for when I want to bring a lance and not feel rushed or like I'm forgetting something.

Just played my 4th game of classic today, I’ve played with full lances since my first, and there’s so many nit-picky rules I have a headache after just 1 game. Alpha Strike looks so much more easy to play I can’t wait to learn it!

@@slenaas Classic BT makes math fun.

Only if you can keep track of it all

@@slenaas start with simplified rules and 1 mech vs 1 mech: no physical attacks allowed. Play that a few times until you are comfortable with the general order of things, and then do a 1v1 of physical attacks only to force yourself to get used to them. A GATOR cheat-sheet printed out and put inside a binder page protector is immensely helpful in speeding things up, you can bring a dry erase marker and write on the plastic protector to help with your math. after a few games, most of it becomes second nature. if the simplified rules above are still too tedious, try a map with no water and pretend none of the woods exist. a game really isn't meant to be played with a bunch of mechs.

I actually laughed really hard when I read Tamar Rising with all the callbacks to the old times. 😀

@@Level30Commoner Yeah, I hope we get some fiction with Joshua Snord and Abdoun Ricol soon. Especially as we've had like 4 novels in the hinterlands in the last few months!

Leave it to Jay for the deep cuts!

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames Fully waiting for him to roll out a unit from one of the Deep Periphery states just to really mess with you some day. I think it was TRO 3085 had rules for putting a team of Jarnfolk assassins on the table...

Personally I sped it up to 150% since he doesn't talk fast enough.

This is a sort of quick play version of the game, but a full version is still available and it’s nearly identical to the original.

Battletech has 2 versions: The original one which is still hex-based and still supported, and the Alpha Strike version which is intended for new players, players coming from other miniwargames, and for simulating large scale battles (because OG BT rules doesn't gel well when you speak about multiple Stars engaging eachother)

They’re getting a box!

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames and here, I am about 60% completed with the 3025 Cranston list, but now I have to get another 3050+ list together for Rhonda.

​@@Rhaumar wicked! I just circled back to the 2 campaign books and I'm planning on doing both!

It turned into march here in Australia :(

Blackjack is the okayest of the okay mechs, which makes it kinda bad in regular since most mechs can do what BJ can do but better while having a specific niche that they suck at, but in Alpha Strike the profiles get streamlined so much that being a all-rounder starts being pretty useful again. Same case with Warhammer

We’ve definitely played it that way as well!

And now...I want a Thundercats miniature game....

Check out the Steel rift set from Death Ray Designs!

Yes but no matter how much structure damage a single attack does you only roll once.

Yes. If a critical is rolled and you still have armour then you roll on the critical table, but if you only have structure left then you roll on the critical hit table every time you lose a structure point.

Yes the first box has the rules for battletech this one has the rules for alpha strike which is a condensed/stripped down version of battletech. The first box has the cards for the Alpha strike stats though. And the first one has 8 mechs and 2 mapsheets. This alpha strike box has thirteen mechs thirteen buildings, a number of trees and all the tokens you saw in this video. The mechs and terrain are compatible with both games. Both are great entry points. Clan invasion boxset is an addon for battletech. But has the stat cards for alpha strike. All the new lance and star boxes have the stat cards for alpha strike. And all are at a great price point.

it's a very different set - Alpha Strike is a different game to full BattleTech though they use many of the same base mechanics. Aside form the rulebook and reference card, the differences are: 1. the short story in the new set is set in 3151 and is by Bryan Young, as opposed to the one in GoAC being set in 2990 and being by William H. Keith. 2. Similarly, the primer booklet in Alpha Strike is set in 3151 and details the ilClan and the status of the various Clans and Inner Sphere nations for that era, as opposed to the GoAC being in 3025. 3. The GoAC box comes with game aids for full BattleTech - 2 mapsheets, a sheet of cardboard 'Mech playing pieces and tiles to modify the maps, as well as BattleTech record sheets for the various mechs in the box, and the Griffin from the Beginner Box. 4. There are 13 'mech minis in the Alpha Strike box. Two of these - the Wraith and the Pouncer are completely new to the plastic mini range, 4 more are just reuses of models already in the line, and 7 have at least one model in the line already but the models in this set have different weapon loadouts. One of the new weapon variants is the only crossover with the minis in GoAC - a Locust. The Locust in the GoAC box is a LCT-1V while this one is a LCT-3M. 5. Both box sets contain double-sided Alpha Strike unit cards and Pilot cards intended for use with BattleTech, one per 'mech. so the number and content of these cards is different between the boxes. 6. The Alpha Strike box contains game aids for Alpha Strike that are not reflected in the GoAC box - counters to mark unit movement, a blast template, 9 small and 6 medium fold-up buildings, and a number of tree counters. These are the cardboard terrain pieces used in the video. There's also a deck of Battlefield support cards allowing players to use abstracted rules for air strikes, artillery and mine fields. There is a similar deck for BattleTech, sold separately.

@@verysilentmouse thank you for the very thorough explanation. You guys went above an beyond. Much appreciated.

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@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames Awesome thank you!