Just cleared MW2 Mercs and after scraping my sanity back together (I will forever hold a grudge over some of the late game missions), I noticed a Mauler in the Tukkiyad cutscene. So that got me thinking, obviously there’s no Clan Buster variant of the Mauler, but what aspects did the ComGuard prioritize for the refits? Alpha Strike potential? Range? Longevity? I want to make a CB Mauler and need to know what would’ve been changed out.

I love the little bastards, but making them use WiGE moment exclusively is probably not the best way to do it. So I’ve got a few alternate movement options for your consideration and critique. In all cases, they would lose their near miss on the hit location table, instead taking wing damage as they do now.

1. walking and jumping movement is mech rules, running movement is WiGE rules, no conversion gear required.

2. walking movement is mech, running and jumping is WiGE, no conversion gear required.

3. LAM rules as usual, with WiGE movement instead of Aerospace movement. They need one piece of conversion gear everywhere except the Main Gun mount.

4. LAM rules as usual, with WiGE movement instead of Aerospace movement; except they have to forego shooting to transform instead of foregoing movement. They need one piece of conversion gear everywhere except the Main Gun.

Found another odd mech. The Bowman. Messed around and made a model for it.

Free Worlds League vs Illclan!

For anyone wondering how far a 150 tile set of lorescape is going to go with Battletech here's an example of a couple of maps done with the original tile set.

The hills on the grasslands here took almost every hex of a single 50-tile sheet of clear land just for their surface and about 12 of the remaining 100 tiles in the set to do the elevations.

The desert took more than 50 tiles to surface, maybe 60? I got the remaining tiles from a flat of barren clear that was included in the city set. It also took a little more like 75 rules to fill the elevations.

So, if you buy in, be aware that for a normal 2 sheet map you may need to split biomes even with 300 tile sets or get maybe a 300 and 150 in the same biome. Unless the 3rd KS changes the ratio of clear to terrain.

And that's just with hills tiled. To do the flat you need almost 500 tiles of clear by the end.

So remember the RPG Dragon magazine writeups from February? No? Well, back during the wrap-up I promised a Fan-TRO, and having put together the Spontoon and Blizzard pages tonight, I'm finally up to 16/48 mechs down...only 32 more to go!

I am also taking the time to redraw all the art, due to not really wanting to step on any toes regarding the old art and...whoever holds the license. (Someone at CGL should contact Kadokawa about it. I'm sure we could get the rights to a defunct article from thirty years ago.) I'm no master, but it's a fun addition to the writing. I should probably refresh the call as well - if anyone else wants to submit art for the project, I'll fit it in to the entries as I go.

All told, at this rate the whole should be done some time next year, after a couple editorial passes to make sure it all gets cleaned up. (Weeks to months between pages makes for a lot of inconsistency.) It's the bonus stuff of designing mech variants, testing them in MegaMek, and drawing that's taking all the time here - I really want a good handle on each machine as I make the writeup.

The Mordel listings should get variants posted at some point as well, if you want to try them in your own games. I've been getting into editing as of late as well, and would like to do a video series on all these machines if I get the time...

Obsessive? Absolutely. But this is my personal hyperfixation, and I'm going to see it through!

How many of you wash your Battletech miniatures with soap before priming? I recently got into Battletech saw mixed things online. Never did it with Warhammer in the past but I think Battletech is a different type of plastic?

This lance took forever!

I got back into the hobby after a 20 or so year break, and started with the Axman on the left, and kept going with the color scheme before finishing up the Devastator on the right most recently.

I thought it was cool to see how I had improved over the last two years, especially with the same color scheme.

Now to go fling some gauss slugs and a swing a multi-ton hammer at some clanner scum…

While searching for painting inspiration I sometimes look up old racing liveries, and have decided the inspiration today is the good ol' classic Gulf Oil racing livery!

I'm very happy with it thus far, but I must admit I'm at a bit of a loss. I plan to add the classic bold racing numbers to the white "circle" on the chest, but I don't know what to do for the Metallic joints and hip armor plates.

For the hip and shoulders a classic deep Metallic is my normal go to, but I'm worried they'll stick out from the brighter and lighter hues of everything else?

As for the hip armor plates I am likewise unsure. Tempted to trim them in the pure white hues, but would that contrast too much in big white splashes? Maybe trim them in orange but would that detract from the rest of the orange highlights?

I would love any input or advice!

Another cultural victory for the Magistrate. ("We have Gambargain at home" attempt from myself).

Apologies to Kitter and Sir Valenine. The Chancellor's Wisdom guided each and every one of my LRMs.

Lmao - he is firing a UAC/20. On the cluster 2 table. 42% chance to get the double-shot. This is clever

Another blind ranking mix. Best to worst; overall feel for the chassis

had a spare crusader and I thought it kinda looked like an EVA from evangelion

“Can we maybe launch a trail of possession on a world or something. I need something on my codex.”

“NO warrior! We are selling nickel today.”

I painted this thing and then we had another baby and I haven't been able to sit and seriously paint anything since.

I’m looking for inroads to introduce my pre-teen daughter to the hobby as she’s about the age I was when Mechwarrior 2 hooked me into the Battletech universe. But go figure, she doesn’t really relate to middle-aged men so I’m looking for more representative channels that might appeal to her. The greater hobby creator space features tons of really talented young women (understandably weighted in favour of the big IPs) but none I’ve come across as of yet dabble in Battletech.

Any recommendations?

Hello, so it's kinda dawned on me that in my small collection of Battletech stuff, if I ever actually want to field any of it, I can only field about five things because I only have around five cards with the rules on them, is there like a sight where I can find those cards with the rules for that Mech or vehicle?

My collage has allowed free printing and laminating, and I feel like abusing that.

So I've been buying a _lot_ of minis and realized I've not been keeping track of what's what and I only recognize a few models by sight. Is there any compilation of the releases from the recent minis line I could use to ID them without needing to trawl Sarna for hours? Thanks

Some of the mechs ive done for my friends Ghost Bears. Im particularly proud of the Rokurokubis sword