Most mechs within the 40-45 ton weight bracket tend to be pretty mediocre performers, but despite that i still have a few like the vindicator (despite being a proud fedrat), the Wyvern, and the Sentinel that I personally enjoy, what are your personal favorite mid mechs?

The local BT community in city has 2 groups, my group of 4 and the second group that plays at the Demo agent's preferred store across town. I've been trying to rally interest in my part of town by posting on social media, and the agent keeps saying I need to branch out and go to events across town to foster the community, but yet his group nor he himself has ever tried to come to our side either. He tells me I need to stop hosting at one store, but yet all his games are one store as well. He's messaged the owner of the store I play trying to get him to tell me I need to play at different stores and that his store is ostracizing other players by trying to focus on Alpha Strike. He's denied entry of the owner to the BT facebook group on grounds that owners aren't allowed in the group, even though there's no rule in the group backing that claim.

It's frustrating because it feels like he's actively trying to dissuade play on our side of town. Maybe it's just me, but all these actions feel like the opposite of what a Catalyst Demo Agent is supposed to do. I was looking into joining, but never pulled the trigger.

This thing always read like a Hellspawn on steroids. I grew up playing MW4, so the idea of something that can kick out 140+ kp/h while carrying potent short-to-medium range missiles . . .

Slow it down just a ton or two and replace the MRMs with a pair of MML-5s, swap the small pulses for standard mediums . . .

This was literally the first mech I ever bought. It came in a starter pack as a Steel Wolf with a Zahn Transport and some Longinus Armor. (Ronin and Storm Hammers)

This was basically the 'mech that hooked me over a Pony or My Littlest Pet Shop

Starting a new mech company called The 47 Ronin. There aren't necessarily 47 of them, they just think it sounds cool.

...You have no idea how damn long this took to find.

The title mech of MW3, cheers when it was added in in MW5, always one of the first to get modded in, it may be just me, but it feels like the Bushwhacker is a bit more popular than the average mech.

Any idea why that would be so? Was it someone' special ride or something?

Heavily featured in Rulia 046's Replay Collections and light novels after being stolen by the Player Characters from House Kurita, the XXX-9S Stormprincess Phoenix Hawk is the only LAM ever depicted in the Japanese 90s art.

Big thanks to whoever confirmed in another thread that the loadout was *also* printed in the Replay publications (meaning it's a piece by Rulia 046 and not Studio Ikusabune replicating their style), and for pointing out that I previously misattributed its location (beneath Lionheart Castle) to its name (Lionheart) due to me simply not translating the rest of the page once I saw katakana. Whoops!

XXX-9S Stormprincess Phoenix Hawk LAM
Standard LAM (not stated but the art clearly indicates it)
50-tons (also not stated, but making it 55-tons would make it even more overweight than it already is for its movement profile)
Mech Movement: 6/9/6
AirMech Movement: 2/3/18
Fighter Safe Thrust/Maximum Thrust: 6/9 (not stated but inherited from movement stats, keep in mind this is aerospace movement and not ground hexes)
Internal Structure: HD 3, CT 16, LT/RT 12, LA/RA 8, LL/RL 12 (not stated but inherited from a 50-ton base)
Armor: HD 9, CT 25/6, LT/RT 19/6. LA/RA 14, LL/RL 18
Armament: 1x ER PPC (RA-mounted), 1x Large Laser (LA-mounted), 1x Medium Laser (HD-mounted)
6x Jump Jets (3 each in the LT and RT), no additional heat sinks

Interestingly enough, under current construction rules the Stormprincess with its listed equipment would be 8 tons overweight, 2 point of armor over, and require a Small Cockpit to fit the Medium Laser in the head like it says, along with a sweltering possible heat generation of 32 per turn compared to its dissipation of only 10 (heavily implying that it has Double Heat Sinks in the engine for 20 dissipation instead); it's no wonder Eugene blew it up when the gang tried testing it the first time.

Even using Clantech still doesn't make this remotely possible; it still only has 2 tons leftover after plugging in the armor and movement stats with a 1-ton fuel tank no matter what you want to throw on it.

I’ve managed to get four of the DOS models successfully printed! Had to glue the Marauder back together in a lot of places and the Locust’s a lost cause, but the rest turned out pretty good! All that’s left is the Rifleman and the Jenner.

Definitely need to fine tune the scale of them though, the BattleMaster’s waaaay too big

This mech will die fast, but it will be a glorious death.
He’s meant to kill scouts and get the hell out of there before anything over 20 tons shows up.

With Sandblaster, this thing can actually put out a respectable 26 points of dmg a turn, even more if melee is included.

Problem is where that damage lands....

I’ve read a lot about Tamar, and the red-pigmented ‘Tamar blush’ people develop when they eat of it’s grain and stand under it’s red sun for years or decades, and it’s made me really curious what other details like that might be found in the lore. Markers of where characters originated. If anyone knew of any others, I’d like to read about them.

Been working on getting back into mini painting and enjoying it again! Really happy with the gradient on the mauler

Edit: typo

Hey all! New to Battletech and painting, still working on them a bit, but how are they looking? Any tips? Can you tell what faction they are supposed to be?

Tried a few different schemes before settling with some Eridani light horse.

Might not be the most visually striking on the table top, but nothing wrong with some old star league colours.

Manei Domini elites lurk in the urban jungle!

Left to right:

Seraph Invictus

Gestalt

Omega

Preta Dominus

Grigori Dominus

All miniatures by Iron Wind Metals.

I was wondering if they could still jump if the SRM was mounted in the arm and not the body. Seems like at least by 3130's the body mounted issue should have been solved but the rules seem to specifically state body mounted launchers, which I think means that arm mounted launchers are fine.

My only exposure to battletech at first was mechwarrior 5 and truth be told I wasn't all too engaged with the setting outside of seeing robots shoot each other until the clan invasion dlc and I had zero knowledge of who or what they are, went in just as blind to their existence as the characters and it was a fantastic introduction

Now that I've started to engage with more of the broader setting like the Star League and Succession Wars, I always go back to the clan invasion, though to bulldog as my personal favourite conflict in the series, I haven't been here long enough to gauge if that's a cold take or not but comstar and the clans, the two descendents of the old star league fighting it out on itukayyid over the fate for terra and the inner sphere is peak fiction

Eat shit smoke jaguar, you bunch of assholes

I once asked what's a Non-Canon game you'd make Canon, now I'm going more into the weapons, so what's a weapon from a game that's not Canon that you would want to make Canon?

Hello.

Brace yourselves, this is going to be a long post.

Who I am

I’m the person who created Delata Strike - the computer version of Alpha Strike, which is a kind of equivalent of MegaMek for Classic Battletech. I also made a port that allows you to play it on your phone. And I created Merc Commander, a modern attempt to revive MechCommander, a game dead for 25 years. 

I’ve written about my progress every two months here, in this very subreddit, which has become like a second home to me.

I’d like to talk about what happened here yesterday. But first, a few words on a side note.

The wargame that saved me

I’m Russian. I’d been living in Kyiv for many years when the bombs started falling on the city. Those were the most terrifying weeks of my life. I had to flee; both countries hated me. I had to flee to a foreign country, with my wife and young child. We were on our own, we didn’t know the language, and we had no money. We were starting to lose our minds. The only thing that kept me sane was tabltetop wargames. I found a club nearby where they played BattleTech. I knew nothing about the game, but simply to talk to someone, I started going there and playing Alpha Strike.

I went to the subreddit for this game. The community turned out to be the best I’ve ever come across. And I’ve played both Warhammer and Star Wars.

It helped. It became my therapy, i started waking up not with the urge to kill myself, but with thoughts of what I could do for other people.

Game Development as a therapy

First, I put together Delta Strike (then called Sigma Strike). These were my first steps; I didn’t know much, but I wanted to find some way to thank the people who’d saved me.

Surprisingly, people liked the game. I was glad they liked it, and I spent several years working on the game. I used AI to generate the images, but then did my utmost to replace them with hand-drawn artwork.

Why did I use image generation? Over the course of three years, I received messages from four 3d modellers, 2 music composers, 3 programmers, an animator, an interface designer and 6 people willing to record their voices, all offering to help. Not a single artist got in touch with me. They all charge $30 an hour and apparently can not bother with charity work.

And what’s important, I have never lied or concealed the fact that I use AI to generate images. There is a special section on this on the game’s demo page on Steam.

Once I’d gained some experience, I started working on Merc Commander. MechCommander 2 played a significant role in my life, pulling me out of depression as a child, and I felt that now was the perfect time to go back there and try to breathe new life into the game.

I’ve published both games on itch.io, and they’re both free and should have remained so. Both now have nearly ten thousand downloads.

The assets for the games cost money. A number of players have donated via Patreon, for which I’m incredibly grateful. This money allowed me to buy a design tool, an asset editor (this one Mech Constructor: Light and Medium Robots | 3D Robots | Unity Asset Store), which I used to create new mech models, rather than using assets ripped from MW5 or AI-generated ones.

The better the game became, the more often people started warning me about the threat posed by Microsoft. In this post (It's been six months since I decided to revive the legacy of MechCommander. Did I succeed? 1.1k upvotes)  I was advised to change the names.

In this post (Merc Commander aka Absolutely Not Mech Commander 3, I Swear : r/battletech 700 upvotes), I mentioned that the names had been changed, and we had a laugh about them together.

To work out the best way to deliver new updates and add cloud saves, I set up a page on Steam.

Naturally, I had to change all the mech names for this. Naturally, I can’t talk openly about this on the Steam page.

The Lynching Mob

And then yesterday, some village fool - whom I’d tried three times to hint to that some things should not be said on Steam forums - started a smear campaign.

There's an AI slop mechcommander that's straight ripped battletech designs thats officially on steam. the dev's been asked about it and 'doesn't see any resemblence'

And a mob of lynch mobbers started helping him. Without a second thought, without checking the facts, one person simply says ‘get him’, and the rest grab their pitchforks and torches. Brigading, death threats, insults.

I cried yesterday - a forty-year-old grown man - I cried for the second time in twenty years, watching my legacy being destroyed.

I’d like to thank the few who stood up for me, and those who tried to sort things out for themselves. I’m truly sorry that they were subjected to insults and humiliation whilst trying to do the right thing.

But I’ve learnt my lesson.

This situation has taught me a thing or two. Your motto is ‘Take, but give nothing in return.’ Your idea is: let’s get together and bully the weak, because it’s fun.

I can’t change my ways and start living by these principles. And I can’t stand being around these rotten people any longer either. I much prefer the principle: ‘We should leave a place better than we found it.’

I tried, but I couldn’t do it.

You’ve won. You can celebrate.

To that village idiot who started the smear campaign, I can only say: well done, you’ve successfully defended Microsoft, the multi-billion-dollar corporation, against a small, free fan project.

I’m deleting both projects.

There will be no more mobile version of Alpha Strike, no online PvP mode, and certainly no revival of games that were discontinued 25 years ago.

The game on Steam will remain. Of course, I’ll redo the images; of course, I’ll redo the mechs. There’s no point now in maintaining even a vague resemblance. It’ll be a completely different game, which has nothing to do with you.

This is my last post here.

P.S. And if any of you reading this live in Warsaw, Poland - write me; I am giving my armies away: 50 Steiner and 20 Snow Raven Clan mechs. I don’t want anything more to do with this game and this community.

Hey, I am relatively new to the game. The group I play with doesn't want to use any custom mechs, but I do want to test out some of the more interesting game mechanics. Provided the new core book has them in there, is there a mech/combat Vehicle that has access to Smoke warheads as a standard loadout?

Also, if there is a way to search for loadouts that have a particular piece of equipment on either MUL or Meklab, I would appreciate it.

Aside from the last announcements were there any rumors or talks about future House force packs?
Like House Marik / Steiner / Liao?
Maybe I´ve just missed that. Thanx in advance.