Battletech is back!!!

[jamus34]

I'm not 100% certain of the time commitment I can give but I'm in

[Yskonyn]

Recruitment thread has been opened here!  O0

Goodwill's Grogheads - Battletech Campaign

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[Nefaro]

There is a "Mechwarrior" table top mini's game. Is that similar? I know Mechwarrior is not Battletech....I at least know that 

On tabletop:

Battletech is the minis & hex-map battle game that started it all.

Mechwarrior is the RPG title which is mechanically compatible with the Battletech wargame.


I don't know if people role-play much with Mechwarrior, as in outside of their mechs.  The Mechwarrior RPG was a nice for creating your mech pilots, giving them some background and start point for a Battletech campaign.  That's the way I always used it.

Battletech is the meat of the whole thing.  The core of it, and where it started.

BT also had expansions covering other areas, such as Aerospace and Space battles for a couple examples.  So, when you had collected all the goods, you could run big campaigns modelling everything from the Jump Ships (think of as FTL motherships), to the Drop Ships, to the planetary air forces, and down to the mechs and grunts on the ground.

[Gusington]

^Has there been any mention of these other ships appearing in the upcoming title?

[Yskonyn]

Actually the RPG part is now called A Time of War.
Mechwarrior: Dark Age is not current anymore. It was an RPG product in a specific era of the lore whereas AToW is the general rulebook for BT RPG gameplay, regardless of era.

@Gus, the initial release of the BT game will only feature Mechs, but the devs have mentioned this might change in future versions.

[Gusington]

^I cannot express how awesome just the possibility of that is.

[GDS_Starfury]

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

[SirAndrewD]

Watched a few minutes of some of the early release lets-plays on Youtube.  Man, the opening cinematic depicting man going to the stars and the rise and fall of the Star League was just beautiful. 

I kind of hope that one day they'd do a story based Battletech game about the Amaris Coup and the fall of the Star League.   It'd be interesting having Mech battles on Earth around famous known landmarks, something that's canonically absent post Comstar making Earth neutral.

[Yskonyn]

^I cannot express how awesome just the possibility of that is.

You can always join my campaign that's setting up and play with the full range of vehicles right now!

[Gusington]

Thank you Yassy but I am a n00b at Battletech...

[Yskonyn]

So what?
Pick up the introductory rules and join in! The era we will start in does not have high level tech yet. Aside from various 'advanced' / optional rules, which I can explain, you will not have any trouble playing along.

[Gusington]

Ok - I will sign in on your invite thread.

[DennisS]

I did some digging...pre-pay on their site is $39.99. Seems pretty reasonable, and one I will wait for. Release date is in about 3 weeks.

[Gusington]

^There are occasional pre-release sales for it through GOG and Fanatical...I got a copy for around 30.00.

[mirth]

I think you can still get it for $32 through Fanatical

https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/battletech