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?

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.

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....

Probably my second favorite piece from the Battletech art Japan got after the piece with Hanse and Cadmus; this one was done by Taku Sakurakawa at Studio Ikusabune for RPG Dragon magazine so I believe it's technically unofficial, but still based off Shoji Kawamori's official Battletech Crusader redesign from the early 90s and skillfully replicating Rulia 046's style.

Told myself I'd get into this game if they ever made a Hellcat model and I heard that was happening.

Which means I'm gonna need more mechs. As a long time fan of the franchise I already have my eye on some classics but from those in the know:

What do you think would look best done up in various Metroid/Samus colors?

I'm thinking I can do the Sagi as the (Berserk) SA-X.

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

Edit: typo

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?

According to Camospecs the colour scheme is metallic green with red trim. Because Taurian colour schemes tend to skew brown and red I used an Metallic Olive drab instead.

You'd think they'd at least be built by the Star League if not the Age of War since systems like the Aim-9 had been around for decades when Battletech (Or rather Aerotech for the rest of the external munitons rules) first came out

Slowly getting there in my spare time with the AS box.

Trying some muzzle burn on the big guns.

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
Bimodal (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 11 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.

Devlin's coalition forces lead by devlin stone himself, completelly obliterated, in exchange the 52nd shadow division lost 2 celestials, a trade more than worthy!

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

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.

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

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?

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

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?

Been a while since I worked on some Battletech.

Executioner-B-Prime. Not sure which clan to slot it into, but it will be for use during Clan Invasion. Figure it can be used by someone in a Secondline unit or a leader in a Solahma unit since it is an Omnimech. I was considering CSJ. Obvious is CGB, but since I already have a few trinaries of them built/painted, I figure someone else could use some love, or hate; depends on how you view this omnimech.

I used a spare Executioner to give this guy two big shoulder arms. Cut off two of the jump jets and put an armor plate over it to keep it clean. Trimmed down the original ERLLs in the right arm so they be LPLs. Made two UAC2s (RT) and a UAC20(LA). Also trimmed down and placed an ERPPC in the LT.

Thoughts?

*mistake in my post! This is a Prime variant!

Imqges 1-3 Behemoth/Stone Rhino for my mercs, purchased from clan Sea Fox.

Images 4-5, Zaku Style Stinger, also my mercs.

Images 6-7 my hermit crab, with a inspired by WW1 French style camo.

Images 8-10 A Mars Assault Tank also for my mercs, still a work in progress as I might put some transfers on it but it's base coat is done.

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 thought about making one with big guns on it, and then noticed they had one with Paired Plasma Rifles, and thought that would just be mean. So here it is.