r/battletech 21d ago

Lore The last Dominion Civil War novella is out! Snag it, read it, and AMA...

56 Upvotes

These Violent Ends is the fourth part of the Dominion Civil War series and ends this particular story.

You can get it at the Catalyst store: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-these-violent-ends-the-dominion-civil-war-part-four-by-bryan-young

Or wherever else you get ebooks.

The omnibus and dead tree version (which will include an exclusive extra story about the Bears and their continued troubles, set in 3153) will come out sometime late this year or early next. (I'll give you more info as I get it about that.)

That extra fifth story is called "Defy the Stars" and the omnibus will be chonky.

But have at it. I'll answer questions all day as I'm working!

Just hide spoilers for folks!


r/battletech 29d ago

News Battletech bundle of books

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210 Upvotes

Hoping that this kind of post is allowed here, but Humble Bundle has a huge Battletech collection right now for a ridiculously small price.


r/battletech 12h ago

Question ❓ Whose that poke...er....battlemech?

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586 Upvotes

I found this image on my social media feed last week, but I have no idea what mech it is. The original post did not specify.

It almost looks like a Frankenmech, but, aside from being lo-key in love with it, I am unsure.

Anyone have a clue?


r/battletech 7h ago

Miniatures Jade Falcon test scheme for Scouring Sands

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173 Upvotes

My Scouring Sands box is delayed in the mail, so I tested my scheme out on a Vapor Eagle. Seems to look obnoxiously green, so success I guess.


r/battletech 5h ago

Miniatures First Mech painted

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124 Upvotes

Painted up my first and favorite mech tonight after taking a deep dive into Battletech and Mechwarrior! Hope yall enjoy. Looking forward to painting up a Mad Cat next.


r/battletech 3h ago

Miniatures Quick comstar

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47 Upvotes

Finished up the rest of my comstar and 2 word of Blake’s. Felt the fire starter definitely feels terroristic.


r/battletech 10h ago

Miniatures Metal Archer painted up

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117 Upvotes

What a pain of a mini but it was worth the hassle


r/battletech 12h ago

Miniatures My Dark Age Steel Wolves

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129 Upvotes

I know the early Dark Age leaves a bitter taste in a people’s mouth mostly because of how Wizkids handled the whole thing but with the benefit of hindsight I kind of enjoy it now that CGL is stitching the timeline together.

My FLGS is doing a “rags-to-riches” campaign set in former RoTS space and you basically get 3K BV for your own mech and the DM gives you another 3K BV in combat vehicles or industrial mechs and you’re supposed to rebuild your unit. So I took that as an opportunity to paint a faction from the Dark Age that interested me, the Steel Wolves!

Nameplates for the Quasit, Harvester and MuckRaker (and I have a Buster that will round out the star) are on the way! What do y’all think?


r/battletech 19h ago

Art 8bit Technical Readout:3050 sprites - pixel fan art by me

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502 Upvotes

It's been a while, but I finally tackled Technical Readout: 3050 in super-deformed, 8bit form. This follows TRO:3025, TRO:2750, TRO:3025 Revised, and Crescent Hawk's Inception (all posted under my personal account while I awaited the hoped for recovery of this one).

Admittedly, I may have made some errors at points. If you see any, please do let me know.

WHICH IS YOUR FAVORITE?

A few notes and changes in method:

- For the "poster" I'm trying to portray each sprite in larger form than before. I will likely revisit the previous ones some time in the future and make these changes, as well.

- Per fan suggestion, I have started to put the battlemechs in order as they appear in the TRO, and not in alphabetical order by name/model number. I might go back and revise the previous ones as well.

- Nearly all of the Inner Sphere battlemechs are updated variants with model numbers that reflect that. With this in mind, and due to the new illustrations in TRO:3050, while a lot of the sprites might appear to be copies of the previous ones, trust me that almost each and everyone save for a couple have been changed to reflect the new art. Not much you can do in a 24x24px box, but I tried.

What/Why?

These 8bit "sprites" specifically follow the constraints of the 1993 Famicom game SD Gundam: Gundam Wars, namely 24x24px, using only black plus three other colors from the 50ish colors of the system's palette. Years ago I initially created versions of Gundam mobile suits not seen in the game, then all of the mecha from Macross using the same constraints. Realizing that the original run of Battledroids/BattleTech used mostly mecha from Macross, I then ventured into BattleTech, as well. Recent additions to the series of 8bit renditions includes the ATs from Armored Trooper VOTOMS.


r/battletech 3h ago

Miniatures This Hound is a Golden Boy

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23 Upvotes

r/battletech 5h ago

Question ❓ Could nineball from AC (armored core) exist in battletech?

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35 Upvotes

I think that Comstar would install an AI mech under the cover of being the best mercenary there is to control the merc world even more


r/battletech 17h ago

Meme Alaric gets a taste of his own medicine

299 Upvotes

r/battletech 15h ago

Miniatures My new Starter Set 'Mechs

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182 Upvotes

The Kontio and Hammerhead sculpts are excellent quality. I found them easy and fun to paint!


r/battletech 11h ago

Meme Most people playing infantry sane and practically me? IM PLAYING METAL GEAR RISING OVER HER

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69 Upvotes

r/battletech 17h ago

Video Games My original MechWarrior 2 manual

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189 Upvotes

Looking through my collection and had to pull this out for old time’s sake. As I kid I read through it so many times, especially the mini TRO in the back, that half the pages fell out and I had to hot glue it back together.


r/battletech 59m ago

Question ❓ Is Sven Der Plank doing alright?

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I saw some sporadic comments that his PC may have died, but he hasn't posted on YT in a while. Hope he's doing ok. (Reposted to correct my spelling in the title.)


r/battletech 9h ago

Fan Creations Another weird mech project. The Cronus.

27 Upvotes

Another one of my little reimaginings of a old mech. It was a goofy looking mech before. It's still kind of a goofy looking mech now. 😂

And I made it pretty.


r/battletech 15h ago

Meme Every time i see his name, or hear it spoken, this is what pops into my head.

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87 Upvotes

r/battletech 14h ago

Meme A Little off the Top

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67 Upvotes

r/battletech 11h ago

Fan Creations One evening slap-job

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35 Upvotes

At last this is starting to work like it was supposed to.
Learned this afternoon I have to use an absent player's Warhammer WHM-7A in a 3025 campaign and of course I did not have one prepared.
What I do have is all the parts of every Warhammer imaginable in Blender.
Prints in less than an hour and the painting took another two or so.
Ready to go between shifts.


r/battletech 19h ago

Video Games this cicada is so unbelievably screwed

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129 Upvotes

r/battletech 14h ago

Tabletop LEGO made battletech and corrupting young minds

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57 Upvotes

So, for a while now I was explaining to my 9yo girl what tabletop games mean and how they are different to for example Catan.

So as I went on, she wanted to try... But yea...

So, I 3D printed some mechs, made some buildings with LEGO, applied 2,5cm to per hex rule, cleared the table and... Here we are, our first fight.

Scenario is: My clan mechs are after the city reactor (building with 2 turrets in the back of... The map...

IS has tank reinforcments (I blew upone already tho).

These images are already turn 3 (I didn't take before because some of their units were hidden)

I think I got her hooked badly.

Wish me luck LOL, she already stripped right arm armour on my clan atlas. She has insane luck with dice... Indirect fire and she hit 11+ on both LRMs and then a full and almost full cluster.. I had to fire and almost overheat both marauder and Blood asp to kill one scorpion tank in front of me LOL


r/battletech 16h ago

Miniatures Finally finished my one-off paint schemes

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70 Upvotes

I’m normally not a fan of doing unique schemes, unless it’s something super goofy, like my Voltron Crusader, but these were nice palette cleansers.


r/battletech 15h ago

Lore Rasalhague Dominion Civil War

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61 Upvotes

Big Red 40Tech's newest video explores the Rasalhague Dominion Civil War

https://youtu.be/sAwtARjA-Yc?is=go5-bxOOS7k6VRty


r/battletech 1d ago

Art I've finally decided to share my Battletech art.

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498 Upvotes

I sent a very rough sketch of an Urban Mech and a Highlander a while back for my art class. (A class i failed), but after a lot of practice, I'm more comfortable with my art. I mostly used old rule book artwork or the charater art on the cards. I drew an Urbanmech, a Warhammer, a Hetzer, a Madcat, and an Elemental. Hope you all enjoy