Definitely some minor mistakes but fun nonetheless! We need more BattleTech!

I am so so SO happy to see you play this game on this channel.

When playing Clans it's always good idea when ever possible to keep distance and try to take advantage from ranges of those Clan weapons. Especially when facing against IS assault mechs like you did this time.

Between Ash and Fritz it really feels like a minor resurgence from Battletech is brewing. Fourth biggest fictional universe in existence I'm fairly certain.

Ah yes, my favourite kind of CBT

Always great to see more Battletech on KZfaq! Game is having a resurgence with the Kickstarters and more great times ahead.

I did not know I wanted a Highlander until now. I love its boxy frame. Banshee I have always liked. It's an assault Mech with the mindset of a varsity tackle.

Been diving head first into battletech recently and the amount of depth it has is insane. There’s so much your able to do !

Great game. The sheets for the mechs take me back to 1987.

Oh yes, more BT.

Physical attacks happen in a different phase after weapons fire

"I just won't fire my Streak SRM" I died at this exact moment

Thank you guys, I love this game, i hope you bring us more battletech

Always taking a Black Hawk (Nova) and jumping into someones Back Arc and unleashing 12 ER Med Lasers, you over heat... alot, but your Target is basically scrap.

Fun game guys! As a looooongtime Highlander player, I obviously was cheering for them.

Great to see another game, minor mistakes allowed :) I rarely feel sorry for the Clans but that poor Mad Cat/Timber Wolf was dead from about turn 2. Moving that slowly in that terrain against a couple of elite assault mechs was suicide! A great example of how the next level of the game is getting used to how to use the different mechs in different circumstances - and sorry Ash, but you walked that mech into death by giving up your speed advantage :) The reason I like CBT is that it is a much more skill based game than something like Warhammer and experience showed a little there. On that map the Mad Cat variant with jump jets would have been a lot more useful but still a tough game with that match up. Keep them coming, hope to see more.

Always love the battletech vids! Can't wait to see clan wolf come out on top :)

Love seeing Battletech on the channel! Speaking of stompy robots, will we also be seeing you try out the new Heavy Gear Blitz rules on the channel? Keep up the awesome work! 👍

Love how the IS player says timber wolf and the clanner says madcat

Awesome, I'm always down for a big mech throwdown.

Torso twist note, death ray designs makes some handy todos twist markers. Please keep up with the classic btech content, lovin it!

I’d love you Battletech to become a regular feature. I’d recommend checking out the death from above’s battletech: destiny rules set that is a hybrid of classic & alpha strike

This was excellent Ash! What a game, what a mess!

I'm just getting into battletech glad to see you still getting games in

Seeing Tiger Stripe camo on miniatures made me unreasonably happy.

Love me a Highlander, probably my favorite assault mech. This is pretty much the only way to do CBT deathmatches in a reasonable time frame, two to three mechs per side with skilled pilots in some heavy metal. It makes for some great giant stompy mech action, and is how I scratch my CBT itch when Alpha Strike isn't doing it.

Kinda glad you didn't use the rules for playing in a vacuum, those are lethal as h*ck (and are in Tactical Operations if you do want to use them). I haven't had a chance to try the moonscape mat out yet thanks to the Apocalypse, but it plus the moonbase map in the Hostile Environment map pack are going to make for a fun playing space! On torso twisting: regular BattleMechs can torso twist one hexside to the left or the right, essentially moving their front and arm arcs one hexside over. If you're directly behind the enemy mech, they can get one arm back to attack you with - either with weapons in the arm or a punch. Four-legged mechs (usually called Quads) cannot torso twist at all. Mechs with no lower arm or hand actuators in both arms (by design, they don't get this ability if the actuators are destroyed) can flip their arms around, putting all weapons on both arms in the rear arc - think the Rifleman bringing the arms up and around to fire at an enemy behind them. There's a sweet spot on either side of the enemy's rear where if you position a mech they can only torso twist to bring that side's arm to bear. So if they're got, say no weapons in the left arm and you position yourself in the left sweet spot they can't get the right arm to bear at all. It does mean you're on the line between the side and rear arc so the defender decides which side you hit. If you delve into the advanced rules, BattleMechs can mount turrets that allow the weapons mounted in the turret to face any hexside, with a firing arc identical to the front arc, and three-legged mechs can torso twist to any hexside. On physical combat, not sure fi you're truncating it to speed up the game, but rules as written are that there's a separate physical attack phase after the weapon phase. This means that the damage from physicals don't count towards the 20 point total to cause a piloting skill roll, and mechs that fall over in the fire phase are on the ground for the physical phase. But taking 20 points of damage in the physical phase (if you get hit by multiple physicals, or something particularly nasty) causes a separate Piloting roll - as does being kicked one or more times. So taking kicks that total 20 damage causes 2 piloting rolls, both at +1 from the 20 damage! On falling over, damage is split into 5-point clusters, so that Banshee should have taken two hits to the back rather than a single hit of 10! Might have killed him...

More Battletech, awesome!!

Thanks. That was fantastic

That kick from the Banshee was 🥵🥵🥵

Love the Battletech batreps.

Pulses are -2 not -1 firing the streak would have been better than an er med laser. 12points of damage vs 7

I think 2 vs 2 is the best size for youtube videos. you can mix it up with objectives too or solaris

Great batrep!

The Banshee is soo thick! Can tank so much DMG

That was quite the interesting match! I love CW, but holy shit, a good match nontheless! Question, why not make them your bondsmen? You defeated them honorably.

Such an entertaining battle!

Forces of Guerilla Miniatures Games, you have been claimed as bondsmen of Clan Ghost Bear. You are to continue playing Battletech to spread it's popularity and bring it back into the game stores. This is the will of Kerensky

ER pipi is no joke. I have it, and it's not easy living with that condition.

Woo hoo more Battletech!!!!!

the soccer kick to the head lol

steel warrior studios makes great Battletech terrain and is located in Ontario

The highlander looks like something from 2,000ad; like Walter the Wobot or Mechquake in combat mode. It could make a great mini for use in the Judge Dredd game as a construction bot.

I like this but I prefer the full 4 on 4 lance battles. Will gladly watch a longer video for it

I can learn from you guys. MechWarrior from Indonesia 🇮🇩

Grendel and a Mad Cat getting in close, negating their range bonuses... also, don't pulse lasers have a -2 to hit? Also, you don't lose weapons immediately to critical hits, they blow up at the end of the round. You subdivide fall damage into multiple locations in 5 point blocks like lrms. I'm nit picking, but you guys had fun and did it fast which is nice.

I love watching these because I've read the beginner rules, and watching multiple battles means that I'm getting the more advanced rules ingrained in my head.

Yay battletech

CLAN WOLF! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

thanks for calling it the mad cat.

Yai, more battletech

I like this just there's not enough dice rolling for me. I mean I just discovered this stuff and am looking at a bunch of money to begin.

Checking my understanding - @19:00 Was the LRM in the face - did they forget that it was within minimum range for the modifiers? (I think that would be about +5? to hit for the LRM)? Loved watching it. I recently ran an OG Battlemaster and OG Thunderbolt vs Madcat and Elemental. In the end, the Thunderbolt went down in an ammo explosion at the same time it took the head off the Madcat. The Elementals were the only thing left standing..

It´s not a Mad Cat. It´s a bloody Timberwolf.

You have to keep physical attacks seperate from weapon attack phase. mech could be polished off in weapon attack phase thus preventing its physical attacks

Re Kicking prone mech: you do not use the punch hit location table as you could hit anywhere on the mech.

Again yay! But really it's only classic BT if you're using the green book and 3025 mechs 😎. Lance on lance with lighter mechs works well. 200 ton limit, so 1 heavy, 2 medium, 1 light for example. Archer ARC-2R, Hunchback HBK-4G, P'hawk PHX-1D, Firestarter FS-9M [Mirage] was command lance of my 2nd company of the Northwind Highlanders.

Huzzah

been playing it way to long haha

What type of Camera are you using to record?

I know this video is a year old but I e been playing battletech since the 80's. When did hits to an area get absorbed by terrain? I've always played and still do that you just do dmg on the punch table because that's all you can hit.

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OG Battletech player here. Can you still build Land Air Mechs?

Where do you find the points value?

Ashe not wanting to waste another 3 days on a single lance fight? :-D

What’s a mad cat? (Kidding)

So many math errors on the modifiers it's crazy

This seems like a very complicated TTG, am I wrong or not?

When you have 12 missiles hit out of possible 20....use 2 groups of 6 damage instead of 5,5,2 .. ..if 8 missiles hit...use 2 groups of 4 each.... speeds the game along a bit and makes more sence really....... LB-x auto cannon cluster rounds are the exception ... though if you hit all 20 ...that's 20 rolls of 1 damage ... try to keep count....in the heat of battle....smoke from the blunts obscuring the line of sight ...and the cocktails consumed....its easy to lose track sometimes... ....why I only use ultra auto cannons myself....

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Doesn’t the Gauss Rifle have a minimum range of 3?

A standard Clan pilot would have a 3 gunnery skill, 4 piloting skill. Why'd you make the Clanners 4/5? That really made them weak compared to their opponents.

dudes, can you even play this game? 4 minutes in and you already jumped 7 and gave yourself a +3... Jump gives you an additional +1 so that's +4. Not to mention the madcat thing... 11 movement. Ok