Battletech is back!!!

[Gusington]

^There you go - yeah that's the deal I got.

[mirth]

I know.

[DennisS]

^There you go - yeah that's the deal I got.

Thanks for the inputs..I'm not against saving some money.

[SirAndrewD]

Prepare yourselves!

Sadly such a terrible attempt to bring Battletech to the mainstream.

[Nefaro]

FFS, you've gone and made Gus all wet again.

[mirth]

My eyes!!!

[SirAndrewD]

Indeed, it was a terrible show.  Battletech didn't lend itself to being a mid afternoon kids show. 

The show was only nominally attached the canon anyway.  It tried, but it constantly dumbed itself down to try to appeal to kids and streamline the story. 

The big draw and gist of the show was to show of early 90's CGI, it wasn't a good recommendation point.  They'd have been better off just animating the Mech on Mech action.

The most interesting thing about the cartoon is how it ended up fitting in canon.  The cartoon itself was not canon, its story was sort of in line with the story of the Clan Invasion, but was divergent enough to not fit with what people wanted or expected. 

However, in the later Battletech novels, the cartoon is referenced in universe.  Essentially, in the Battletech canon, the cartoon is real and was something showed in the Federated Commenwealth as a highly fictionalized television show for kids, that told the story of the Clan invasion from the Lyran perspective. 

So, the cartoon, is canon, because the cartoon exists in the Battletech canon as an actual TV show shown in the Inner Sphere as a fictionalized account of the Clan Invasion for kids.

Wrap your heads around that fellas.

[Gusington]

Still wrapping my head around hawt mech on mech action.

[acctingman]

This thread is making me NOT want to play Battletech  :'(

[Yskonyn]

This thread is making me NOT want to play Battletech  :'(

Maybe this one does, then.
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=22010.0

[acctingman]

This thread is making me NOT want to play Battletech  :'(

Maybe this one does, then.
http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=22010.0

:P

I thought about it Yskonyn but my time commitments these days are shaky at best. Don't think I can even buy the game when it comes out.

[Yskonyn]

You don't need the upcoming BT game at all.
We will play using free software to simulate the tabletop game rather than the video game.

[Yskonyn]

We now have our own little corner! Yay!

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?board=92.0

[CptHowdy]

christopherodd has video up on youtube. start of campaign mode. says he can show first 6-8 hours of game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIi_PiLQLg

[Gusington]

Wow Yassy - you have spent a lot of time on this.