I want to start playing. Found out there are 2 groups in my areA. Is it hard to get in a an established group ??

Battle tech is awesome, I really wish that there was more content online for it

for novice battletech players or semi-experienced players that are rusty with the rules, then yes, 2 hours is about right. for the experienced players in my group, this is about a 25 to 35 minute skirmish. overall, the participants had fun and things blew-up!!! so it's a win for everyone playing!

@@joshkellemen5931 Michael is correct, your original facing is what applies in terms of where you are getting hit from, not your twisted facing.

This is why when I watched the first Warhammer battle report I was completely baffled. This is the BattleTech that I used to play. The idea of massive armies dying in 45 minutes just doesn't sound right. A Warhammer dreadnought is nearly the size of a light mech, and is the equivalent of a heavy Mech in Warhammer... And will still die in two or three turns. They will place 20 or 30 miniatures and consider an hour to be a long game. Whereas even a light game of BattleTech will be an hour. I did watch a little bit of alpha strike but it isn't the same game. BattleTech has tactics. Especially a classic game like this.

I’m working on it! Austin and I have been plotting for a while about it.

I definitely feel that BattleTech runs a lot more smoothly on the computer than on the tabletop 🤪 It could maybe be a good game to covert to an app to handle the damage and minis to handle the manoeuvring.

@@euansmith3699 There's a fan app called Flechs Sheets that can be used to automate games. It's pretty good but doesn't have all the advanced tech yet. I used it and Tabletop Simulator to playtest something that's coming in wave 2 of the Kickstarter but Megamek can't handle, and it worked pretty good but connectivity was flakey. Even if you don't automate the game with it it does let you manage record sheets on a phone or tablet and that's pretty valuable on its own, of course.

@@lorcannagle Flechs Sheets is nice but can be flaky. What the game needs is a VR/AR mode. So you can move your mechs on a world board that can be rotated 360 and then pick your target and let the math happen. When I was in grad school many years ago I had to work on a project along with mechancal and electrical engineers and I was the software engineer. We created a game using battletech mechs where each hex had a sensor and could be programmed to know its terrain. As you moved your mech, but clicking a button on the base, it would record your movements. When you wanted to attack you would click a button on each mech and it would do the math a report the results to a LCD terminal. It was a very rudimentary version of the game but should how you can combine verious physical and software components together. We recieved and A+ for the project. It was fun, but I doubt it could have ever been made in a affordable way.

@@SamBalducci Jordan Wiseman, the original creator of BattleTech actually experimented with a game that did similar things a few years ago. It was called Golem Arcana, and you had a mapsheet where each space had icons on it representing location and terrain effects, as well as a row of icons representing abilities and the like on the models. The game came with a want that connected to your phone via bluetooth and to take actions you tapped the wand against the appropriate icons and an app gave you the results. I think it did moderately well, but didn't stick around for very long.

Best description of Battletech!

40k absolutely needs end turn damage resolution. Really every modern game without it feels bad imo.

Pretty sure 12 on crit table is limb blown off, or if it's not a limb 3 crits. Not both Also piece of advice, fire your highest damage weapons before your lower damage weapons, the idea here is those high damage weapons will punch holes for the smaller weapons that way each of the small weapons gets a chance to look for a crit when they hit the internal structure Also I believe falling damage gets grouped in 5s just like LRMs do Also when determining crits if you hit a location that is nothing you go back to rolling upper lower again, not just continue rolling inside the previously designated section When failing a check to stand up you do fall over again so you determine a new facing and go through the rest of the process, also if you hit an already hit crit location you roll a new location I believe even if the target is immobile there is a modifier for the called shot, so the shots may not autohit, but they probably hit on something low like a 3 or a 4 Also you are required to take a pilot check to remain standing whenever you take a crit to any of the actuators in the feet, that is in addition to making a check for 20+ damage, and you suffer from all the penalties on all of those That damage from the fall from damage transferred from lost left leg if it hits internal structure does check for a crit

So when you were down to 3 Mechs to his 1 that means you move all 3 Mechs before he moves his since he won initiative, if you had won he would move his mech before you moved all of your mechs With the prone rifleman that is propping to fire it cant fire weapons in the arm used to prop itself, so could only fire weapons in the torso, and then can only fire in it's front arc, so I don think it could shoot at all.

You both did great, battletech is an incredibly complex game and even experienced players mess up the weird edge case rules on a regular basis, or spend a whole bunch of time looking things up and double checking how they resolve.

It does what it says on the tin.

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames only if my Hunchback could hit a broad side of a barn…. 😂

The Battlemaster defeated him by the timeless tactic of accuracy through volume of fire

I'm currently looking to get into battletech tabletop and was eyeing the starter box "A Game of Armored Combat" but your comment has me wonder... what is that new book you're talking about ?

​@@Paehrin Been a while since I left this one! I believe I was referring to different print runs of the rule book. The one I had picked up when I made the post had switched out the cover art for an older piece and had incorporated a bunch of FAQs and errata.

@@Wildonion1 Alright, thanks for the answer. I'll look further into it then !

"Hey, MechWarrior, who won that skirmish?" "No-one, but at least we didn't die."

@@euansmith3699 I always loved the opening to MechWarrior 2 Mercenaries for that vibe: "Look on the bright side kid, this way you keep all the money"

That's how it is in the rule book and how we play in my group. I have played with some people who prefer to roll as you declare as they believe it speeds up the game, but I find it doesn't save that much time and declaring all your shots before any rolls are made makes more sense, and also balances things out

It should have a Jagerbomb weapon.

@@euansmith3699 I thought that's what you call a Jaeger mech performing a charge

A Battle Lance generates them.

I know that rule exists in alpha strike, did y’all just port it over as a house rule?

You can build out your own mechs from scratch in CBT. Not as much in Alpha Strike without starting at CBT and then converting it.

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames nice, I want to make a lance of marauders with a bunch of different shoulder weapons, recreate my MW5 merc company.

Probably!

I havent watched yet but reading the description the answer would be yes. The TMM is based on number of hexes physically moved not on MP spent. So if you only moved one hex the TMM would be 0

Yeah turn 2 I'm pretty sure ash messed up all of his TMM outside of the marauder, they should all have been showing a 6 I believe, don't think any of them move far enough for a modifier. It can definitely happen with messing up the TMM though, especially when you're new to battletech

Target Movement Modifier. It modifies your attack roll based on how far the target moved.

Hexes*

Alpha Strike is free on their website and is a quicker play mode with the basic QuickStart rules. All the new plastic boxes of models come with cards to play it in that way as well.

It’s still in production but it’s very much a game of its time with VERY little Rules drift in over thirty years. For much the same reason I’d call Blood Bowl a #TBT game. This day of the week is home for stuff that’s been around, not necessarily stuff that’s no longer around.

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames and its AWESOME!

Someone should really do something about that guy.

@@GuerrillaMiniatureGames I used to speak like that too. I consciously broke the habit. My life overall has improved about .5-.75%

Yeah, BV never worked. Stock mechs by tonnage is the only way. (Unless Clanners are involved).