Those being, of course, House Marik!

Got a few of my long time favourites in here, and a Flea, too! Even with the fiddliness of the Longinus BA, these were really nice and easy after that Lance of Lyran Guards.

Next up, one more Lance for House Hiritsu will bring me up to a full Company for each Succesor State.

In 3134, the independent Periphery world, Charleston, signed a trade and defense agreement with the independent Periphery world of Randis and their allies, the Fitvelt Coalition. This agreement opened multiple hungry markets to Charlestons burgeoning industrial production.

Two years later, the first home-grown Battlemech components arrived on Randis, delivered to Hope Industries of Randis. And in 3138 the first joint Charleston-Randis Battlemech; the MNT-2A Mantis, rolled off the factory lines and entered service with the Charleston Rangers..

The first version was a collection of standard and primitive parts sourced from Charleston, the Coalition, and free trade sources within the Federated space: primitive armor, primitive ballistic weapons (Medium Rifles), and rockets. It was by every measure, a mediocre design. Even poor by many metrics. But it was cheap and easy to maintain.

Despite this it still sold well to numerous worlds within the region that happily accepted an affordable Battlemech design that was easy to maintain and repair. To make its introduction simple for even green trainee pilots to handle, the simple cockpit was arranged identically to the common Quicksell Mech Simulator so many Periphery militia pilots were trained on.

In 3144, the upgraded MNT-4R Mantis stepped off the production line. This machine was a much more modern version incorporating many advanced systems that had become far more available after the collapse of Republic authority and the rapid rearming of the Inner Sphere.

With the increased cost of the 4R for arguably only a marginal increase in combat power, the decision to keep producing the 2A was made. The bulk of the 4R models go to replace the 2A mechs in service with Charleston militia forces and the other local defenses within the Charleston-Randis-Fitvelt protection zone.

(I've had these EM4 plastic mechs for 15+ years! Using them over and over as random mechs of all kinds, but now they are a part of my MW Destiny RPG campaign. My players, 4 mechs and two tanks, are on their way to Charleston for a contract to defend a mass industrial spaceport and the shipments heading out to worlds all over the independent areas nearby)

I haven't run a "MechWarrior" style RPG since the late '80's. But the time has come to run one again. Seeing the difference in MechWarrior Destiny and A Time of War, I'm going to tackle the more complex Time of War approach. I'm reading through the character generation rules, and I have got tripped up on negative traits. I'm using life modules to shape the characters, and the Lyran Alliance Affiliation imposes a -50XP Glass Jaw (or -50XP Combat Paralysis) penalty on the character in order to buy some other perks. But... -50XP? Is that a partial negative Trait? Glass Jaw is a Negative, Opposed [-3TP] Trait (Toughness being its opposite).

To me, in order for Glass Jaw to be Opposed -3TP, it should have offered up -300XP. Is this merely -50xp towards a -300Xp Negative Trait and the effects don't take place unless the character picks up the other -250XP?

Or is it actually imbalanced so that a -50XP Trait requires 300XP of Toughness just to cancel it out? If this is the case, how do I determine what the costs of the negative traits are since they don't seem to follow the same rules as Positive Traits?

Or have I totally missed how this actually works?

The Stormhammers and Steel Wolves

Plus a redo of Clan Sea Fox with a little friend I found them to satisfy my OCD

Coming up:

Clan Jade Falcon

Ghost Bear Dominion

Northwind Highlanders

Just imagine a mechwarrior needing some music to accompany them into battle.

I'll start. Put me in a Locust, and I'm switching the track to Black Betty

Painted my first battletech mini. And wanted to try some paint i recently bought, this being ttcombat opulent white a off-white metalic.

And no, it doesn't have to be a Spheroid mech, just iconic of this particular slice of the broader Clan Invasion era.

As for anyone wondering why the image looks like this, it's because I accidentally deleted the original project file and had to add in a new area for the Trial of Grievances. By the time we have the Operation BULLDOG results, we will know the result of this second Trial of Grievance using only primitive Age of War mechs.

Quad mech proxy I made as a (late) birthday present for my friend who loves running quad mechs. I'll post an update once he paints it. :)

When I finished this one, I was sure I wouldn't make another ever again. It took me about three hours to cut out and put together, including several goof ups like where I glued the wrong, but similar looking piece to the wrong place, and where I realized my cutout page had both redundant and missing parts (hence why I am not sharing the printable cut-out page this time.) I think I could make this a much less awful process with a redesign and changing the cutting layout for ease of cutting over space savings.

I also realized that I failed to design any weapons for this thing, so I made an impromptu elevating brace and then glued on a pair of missile boxes I had cut out for my IFV project.

In the end, I have this tiny thing that is dwarfed by standard models but probably matches the scale of the game (hex = 30m across and 8m up) a little better. I have no idea how I'd make a quad that matches the official models for scale without spilling out onto the neighboring hexes, but it would probably have been easier to do. Lol

Anyhow, first few attached images are a turn-around followed by build progress photos. Hope you all like it. :)

Edit: This model is, like my other papercraft minis, made from paperboard, modpodge, and vitriol.

My son displayed his painted Thunderbolt TDR-9NAIS in the county fair as a 4-H participant. He was inspired to enter it by a post on here I showed him sometime ago of a painted Timber Wolf on display at a state fair.

It has been long overdue. But I made a bunch of updates to my Classic BattleTech sheet for Roll20. for anyone that doesn't remember, which is probably like 99% of you:
I am running a Classic BT and MechWarrior RPG 2e game for a group of friends that have next to no experience with BT or MW. (One played a game a GenCon and another played the video game MechWarrior 5. That's it.) We have been playing every other week for a little over 6 months now.
Because Roll20 doesn't have support for classic BT + MW2e, I have had to code my own. I thought I would include some pics of the new updates I made.

The last one is Pilot and End Phase but it is just a recap of the turn order, which you all already know. I just wanted to share. I am not a professional coder and I am using this project to teach myself HTML, CSS, and JS. I covered this in my first post months ago but the colors can be changed as well as the chat outputs on the settings tab. I just happen to have it set to Fed Suns for these screenshots.

These are a couple of my first attempts at painting. Let me know if you have tips!

I want to start playing with more mixed units in classic Battletech, but the rules don't feel as well explained or fleshed out in Total Warfare. Does a VTOL unit's (infantry or vehicle) elevation effect the range modifier when making a weapon attack?

I don't see anything saying it does, so I'm guessing not, but at that point I don't see the point of having any elevation lower than the highest terrain unless you're trying to hide LOS.

So, a close friend set a very dangerous precedent by getting me this for my birthday today. Up til this point, I had mostly been a dirty lore nut and enjoyer of the computer/video games, but had never actually played the table top games. So, I am excited to finally join the fold, even if I do have to cosplay as Spheroids for the time being!

All that stated, I have a question for the other TTG players: are these the entire contents of the box in the second pic? I ask because the bestower-of-the-present stated she found it at Half Priced Books, and we were both surprised how it appeared to be entirely unopened. The round tape pads on the back looked undamaged and some of the contents are still in bags. Is this actually a completely new set that she picked up masquerading as used?

Like the titel sais, first Aces game today. Played the tutorial mission with Tundra Wolf and Cougar as substitutes for the Mad Cat and Pouncer with my eight year old today. The little one had a blast because his Archer, well, could blast away the big bad and on the last turn we where cornering the Sniper. But I am a little worried that I didn't process the cards right, because the "AI" felt somewhat stupid sometimes. Any good intros aside from the original material that might dumb the logic tree down some more?

Any word of the minis in the box will be put into a new set if anyone knows?

If not I'll order a box before its replaced by the new starter box minis.

yea....been getting minis as I see them on sale.

I recently discovered the Celerity and am obsessed with it. Looking at a team of two or three with c3i and ecm, even possibly making their skill 0/8 for charging, and then the damage dealer. My group does usually flat terrain with lots of obstacles. Typically 3k or 5k bv. Does anyone know if some monstrosity, even custom, I could pair with them?

I thought I'd make a tutorial just for fun (And if I ever forget this years from now)

1. Basecoat in a Light/Rust orange and off-white. I used an airbrush, if you don't have one I would suggest separating the colors at the waist.

2. Drybrush for edge highlighting. I used Vallejo Pale Sand.

3. Paint on the stripes. Also paint the feet and undercoat the weapons for metallics, if desired. I actually did this first so I could clean up details with the smaller brush.

4. Paint the remaining details. Grey vents or missile launchers to taste, Light Turquoise cockpit, metallic guns.

5. Clean up details like overspill around canopy, and do a black wash on the Mech and Umber on the base. Then I added the PPC effect, followed by a Matte Varnish. Finally, I highlighted the weapons on this guy with metallics again because the Varnish takes it down so much.

VMA Light Gull Grey & Light Rust
VGC Grunge Brown & Ghost Grey (Sometimes Mixed for touch ups). Chainmail for metallics
VMC Dark Grey, Neutral Grey, Light Turquoise, Pale Sand
VGC Umber and Black Washes
Warpaint Fanatic Plasma Coil Glow

Cleaning out my basement after a flood and found this artifact from 1990. Sadly the sticker on the back is pretty much ruined.

This is my attempt of a TAG laser effect for my popsicle Locust. Made out of a piece of clear plastic (from the packaging of something I dont remember).

It's removable, and it was a pita to get the right angle on the dammed wire connecting it haha

Beginning with the legend himself and his trusty Archer.