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Depressed Star Wars fan here… sick of shit with the IP, jumped to Warhammer and cant get to the tabletop due to PRICE.. now chilling with battletech instead.

Cut to 2024 and they did the same shit with mercenaries.

I litterally got into the game, because I wanted to paint a bunch of robots from my Mechwarrior/Robotech childhood. Then I found out the lore and game are amazing!! BTW gatekeep your hobbies so that the type of people that would say "ablist" stay out.

oh dear what a joke a lot of us old guard battleTech fans are also old guard 40k fans as well played both from the 80s onwards.

I wanna go balls deep but I haven’t gotten anything yet. I’m a Wargamer of 20 years but somehow never really took notice of battle tech I wanna change that.

Battletech is a game you can play with a copy of the rules, and two mechs. You can get buy the 1990's fasa rules copy. Vehicles rules changed a little but that is about it. Chart makers are online. So can swap weapons as you wish.

I like painting my minis. But ya know what I have never seen? A half hour video negging people who paint for painting. Let people game how they want.

Wasn't aware this was such a divisive topic. My 'painting' is pretty trash but from across the table i like to think it is passable.

... gave me a lot to think about, your comments about being discouraged hit home for me - but I'm slowly getting better. Thank you for telling me to get of my arse and do it; as I'm off to get off my arse and make another start on my next mech.

I've painted all of mine and my son's mechs (I have 44 mechs in my force and my son has 25 mechs and a five point star of elementals), working now on my aerospace fighters and infantry and a few new mechs I recently bought. I also paint my buildings and terrain. I enjoy painting.

Would you recommend Alpha Strike or Vanilla Battletech for a 40Kish player?

My FASA era mechs are all painted. I got some CGL mechs recently, and I spent time trying to think of a paint scheme that expresses the present me the best. As I sat looking at the bare mechs, I realized that they're already there.

A lot of black. I kept thinking that my phone was turning off. Turn your porn off when making a video so you don't have to use a black screen to censor stuff. Thx. 😂

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God bless, this shit is inspiring for me to keep up my own simplistic painting

Saying this as someone who migrated from 40K, Battletech's rules are _sooooo_ much easier to wrap your head around. No BS like the nesting dolls of stratagems, command point faffery exceptions to every rule, different exception because of different factions... Ugh, never GW again. Battletech might have a steeper learning curve at the start, but once you know the rules, that's it. You and your opponent are playing the same game from the same book.

Macross does not won the mechs. Studio Nue created the mechs, and owns the designs of the mechs. Big West created the audiovisual product Macross, and Tatsunoko productions owned the rights of distribution of Macross. Tatsunoko sold "all rights" to Harmony Gold. But since everything Tatsunoko had was was distribution rights, not even the ownership of Macross the sudiovisual product. But Harmony Gold did not understand that and believed all rights meant they were the sole owners of all the IP. All this was uncovered when Big West sued Tatsunoko productions in Japan. FASA corporation licensed toys from Twentieth Century Imports. And they do not own the righst on the design. As I said Studio Nue owns the rights. So Harmony Gold sued FASA Corporation and nearly anyone. But the king was naked. Harmony Gold does not even own Macross, and they made Robotech using material from the Macross sudiovisual product. FASA IP ended up in the hands of Topps, which licensed Battletech to Catalyst Game Labs.

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do i need the tech manual for rules on like, cost and time to repair and refit mechs with different weapons

Thank you I just started getting into the game and just bought the battle tech essential box and wanted to see what else I could get from the older sets or just info on getting my tcg group into playing it together 6 players.

can you play battletech solo? are there campaigns/missions/ custom loadouts? can i use the normal edition (a game of armored combat) for that?

If I wanted to play an RPG with my friends would I just need BattleTech a time of war/Mech warrior destiny. Or will I need additional books other than those I know I’ll need something to play on and models.

Does anyone know where to find the rules for special weapons like pulse lasers, AMS's, targeting computers, NARC's, ART 4 missles, etc...? I found some free pdf's with mech that have items like this, but do not know where to find the rules for these items. If someone could tell me the rules for them, or point me in the right direction, that would be amazing. I have the battletech game of armored combat and begginer box.

Played the Battletech PC game, decided to mod it recently and was like wow vehicles and battle armor. Now I printed tanks and vtols.... I cannot find full record sheets. Where can I find them please help? Do I have to build them in megamek or something?

Great vid! Just getting into Battletech/ Mech Warrior from a long hiatus and only were into the pc games, I got main set but also the Vidicator B.B set. I tought it was an old version. And yeah, the Griffin lacks hardpoints, hardcore-mode/ stock challenge mech 😂

I gotta say touching grass sounds nice but Battletech has no french translation and therefore nobody wants to sell them here, a shame

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Man, they cheaped out on the cardboard standies. The FASA boxes had every playable mech in multiples when they released. Grant it I haven't played Battletech tabletop since somewhere in the mid to late eighties but you'd think whomever owns it now would've stuck to that concept. Hopefully the current license holders don't want to be the next Games Workshop. (just noticed this is an old video, but hey it was in my recommended so here I am...)

I have The books FASA put out and a LOT of the OLD minis!

Thank you. This was helpful

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I’ve got to find a group that plays locally. I dislike the material Catalyst uses for its models. I buy my models from Iron wind metals. Gotta have those old funky 80s sculpts.

40k made me a better painter, BattleTech made me a better table top gamer.

so quick question, where do i find warship drop ship etc construction rules? thanks

6 months old vid, but Id like to give my own 2 cents on the matter. The battletech community has kept this setting alive back during clickytech and the dark age. Not much from catalyst is worth buying. That have put on display they would rather play politics as well as make undo changes. Lets also not they are a “publisher” whom dosent own a printing press meaning thier books go out print with ease… As to where to start. //You do not need a starter set!// i repeet dont buy one, its a waist I persoanly found this out too late!. The top recourse for battle-tech, and the greatest go to, made by the community. Megamek is a java program. Its a way to play battletech with auto rolling and bots. HOWEVER its greatest use is it contains not only a unit list but comprehensive search function of Battletech Record sheets! Just be sure to set the era and tech level to experimental to look at all thats on offer. This programs great for finding unit battle value, creating armies and saving them, finding new units, printing sheets, and even has a “mechlab” to make your own units, and a full star-map. #1 recourse Megamek. 2. you will want to get your hands on catalysts currant rule book, known as “Battletech Total Warfare”in my book pirate it or get it off some one who will share it, heck rent it from sights whom do that. Catylists want to rename the romel tank because romel was a nazi, vs the fact he is a hystorical general and it was part of two tanks named for generals on each side of the war. Or firing a writer do to his political beliefs, when they are never placed in any of his works, this is a old guard writer feom fasa days, befor the property was liquidated to tops and Microsoft 3. Minitures have a fantastic amount of options. As we have now several generations, id say paint what you think looks cool, as in battletech we do allow proxy. That cougar can be a madcat or a atlas, as long as whe whole table is in on this fact. Iron wind metals and catalist plastic minis both fund catalist, and thus id say get them secoundhand, though I do love iron wind, they are good people, be sure to get non fasa product minis! Thier great! There is also alot of 3d printing of the Parana Games models, this gives you loads of fantastic options for your army! Other then that you will need a hex map, or wargame tabble as the setring can be played on eather. You will want to look into options. You will need, a lot of diferent colar d6 dice that are typicly rolled in pairs!

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that cope 7 was fantastically edited.

Thank you, this is exactly the info I was looking for.

as someone who "played" 40k for all of a few hours and only collected the models and books, and never interacts with the fandom as a whole, battletech and 40k are both cool. Neat models, good books, good games. i want to get an IS lance for Davion and a Clan Star for Steel Viper, and i'll probably never touch a tabletop with them

I first discovered Battletech in the 90's. There were Battletech simulator pods at Parramatta Westfields. It was an expensive game, but still drew quite a crowd. Damn I miss those days. Bought the Game of Armoured Combat Box about a year ago.... Been trying to find some one to play with since. Heard there's a place at Gosford that hosts games, but mostly 40k, and occasionally Battletech. But that's 2 buses and a train each way for me.

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Thanks to you I am able to get it to work!

Now if only I could get any of these in physical form.

Another way to get models is to find old Mechwarrior clicks.

2:06 Despite having played the 2018 video game I'm struggling to get the hang of things as my first table top. Beginner Box has certainly been a bit helpful.