Those hills belong to the game store that I play at. I think everything is 3d printed from Thunderhead Studio STLs.

The Com Guards don’t have much else that fits the niche I had the Battle Cobra in. If you have an Ostscout, that can be a fast C3 spotter at a similar BV cost to the Battle Cobra. Taking that though, you’d be able to also look at replacing the Spartan with something that can fight better at range with the Ost getting close for it. Alternatively, you’d be looking to replace the Battle Cobra’s firepower with something heavier that comes in at more BV.

I’ve been a fan of the Nova Cats since they joined the Second Star League. This bit of their history is indeed heartbreaking.

@@scottsgameroom1 … Excited for Randal to bring us the next book. They will obviously be a more minor player at this point, but this sort of noble pirate true keepers of the way feel should be good stuff.

ComStar's Battle Cobra is definitely a flawed design (too slow for a 40 ton unit), but I think it performed pretty well in the games I played. The only game where it struggled was the 4th when my opponent got a few lucky LRM 20 hits on it and essentially knocked it down to just one MRM 10 by the end of turn 2. Personally, I'd say the Lancelot/Crab is the weakest entry in the lists I played. If I had more miniatures available to pick from, that's what I'd prioritize replacing first. The tonnage of C3i definitely pays off better with a full 6 units, but in a BV balanced game that doesn't really matter. Bigger networks have more of a BV cost too. We tend to play later eras locally, and ECM really is more something that ends up in lists just because a unit someone otherwise wants to take has one than something people are specifically bringing. I'm sure more people trying C3 would cause that to start to shift, but even then, countering one ECM unit in an enemy force wasn't too bad. The biggest obstacle to dealing with that is canon unit selections that combine ECM or iNarc along with C3 computers, but your opponent would also be restricting their options a bit by making sure they bring ECM in the first place.

@@scottsgameroom1 'The tonnage of C3i definitely pays off better with a full 6 units, but in a BV balanced game that doesn't really matter. Bigger networks have more of a BV cost too.' - It does matter, since BV is based on the units stats. I can easily take your lance, switch out the Battle Cobra for an Sentinel or a Crab, go for variants without C3i for the rest and then swamp you with 1-2 additional units from your available mini pool @ 4/4 or keep your slighty modified lance @ mostly 3/4. 'We tend to play later eras locally, and ECM really is more something that ends up in lists just because a unit someone otherwise wants to take has one than something people are specifically bringing.' - Well, WoB had a boner for C3i so the rest of the IS started packing a lot more ECM as a cheap/light counter. So you will see more ECM automatically, either on new design or era-appropriate variants of older units.

@@jochenwenzel8878 my point there was that C3i's tonnage being balanced for 6 units doesn't matter to the BV system. In a BV balanced game, you're looking at what you get for the BV cost not what you get for the tonnage of the unit. Running a network of 6 units is more expensive BV-wise than running a smaller network.

I think it's key to play with the ECCM optional rule so that a list using C3 has the opportunity to still work in the face of an opponent with ECM. Otherwise, any ECM at all is going to almost completely neutralize the BV spent on the network for a tiny fraction of its cost. In pick-up games locally, ECM is something that tends to just show up on accident rather than being a big consideration despite us tending to play later era lists. I'm sure if more folks were using C3 though then that could shift over time.

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@@scottsgameroom1 That's really cool, thank you :)

ComStar's options are limited there. They have a Beagle Hover Scout and a Sprint Scout Helicopter that could serve as fast C3i spotters. Given how fragile those are, I think you'd want to at least double up on them if you were using them as your spotters.

Locally, we tend to run a lot of 4 gunnery with occasional upgrades to 3. The BV cost of going 3/4 means that you tend to find yourself up against opponents that can outlast you with their armor & structure advantage. For a C3 force like this, I'm already paying a good amount of extra BV on improvements to my accuracy, so spending even more of my budget on it felt like it would leave me without enough durability in the list.

@@scottsgameroom1 I just hate the TN's at Gunnery 4. I'm playing a roboto shooter, I want to be able to actually shoot things. The TN's at gunnery 4 are just insanely high, at least to my way of thinking. How people play at that level is beyond me. But I guess each person has their own experience

That display case was from Crate & Barrel. I don’t remember what it was called. I’ve had it for more than a decade now.

Thanks! The Nova Cat Alpha Galaxy scheme is one of my favorites, and the Turkina’s big, flat torso made it a great design to really have fun with the stars.

It’s the Devil’s Bath map from Map Pack: Tukayyid. I have the paper map, but there is a neoprene version too.

Thanks! It's good to hear people are enjoying them.

Want to second this, its fantastically edited and shot. Entertaining and concise, good work!

No immediate plans for more Tukayyid battles right now, but I could see doing one focused on a different Clan for May next year.

Aff, that Battle Cobra had a horrible day.

That is cannon to the Battletech universe. 🙂

It was brutal. The narrow passages and mud pools on that map are hard to deal with.

That is an advantage of arm-mounted weapons. They enjoy a firing arc that is a hex face wider on their side than the arc for torso and head mounted weapons. That means that after a torso twist, one arm’s weapons can fire directly behind a mech. Some mechs (those without any lower arms) can also flip their arms to fire both arms’ weapons behind them.

@scottsgameroom1 o wow! I double-checked, and you are obviously right!! I have been playing/teaching wrong. Thank you so much for taking the time to explain it. 😀