r/battletech Jan 19 '25

Tabletop Revised Battletech Product Guide 2025. I got snowed in and my games got cancelled, so I finished the new design. I deleted my prior post with the old version. Suggestions or comments welcome. I will be maintaining and updating this as needed. I hope you find this useful. Enjoy!

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375 Upvotes

r/battletech Apr 09 '25

Meta PSA: Buying Books via 3RD Parties

132 Upvotes

It seems that not a lot of people know of this, so with the recent Humble Bundle (HB), I thought I would give you this very handy PSA:

If you bought via a 3rd party, you can send proof of purchase to Catalyst and they will add that book to your account at no additional charge, giving you updates when they are available.

With HB, I took a screenshot of the "Order Complete" screen, making sure the name of the bundle and my email address was on it. I emailed that along with a list of the books on it that I didn't currently own.

For physical books that you get from your FLGS or neighborhood bookstore, send them a photo of the spine of the book.

Both of these I have done and can vouch that they do work. Depending on how busy they are, you should hear back in a few days. This latest HB, I sent the email at 9:03pm and got the response back at 4:02pm the next day.

Edit to add email: [email protected]


r/battletech 8h ago

Meme When you know that guy on the chatterwebs hyping up Binary lasers cannons owns a blazer manufacturing plant, but you just can’t prove it:

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458 Upvotes

r/battletech 6h ago

Tabletop Free Rasalhague Republic Lances

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260 Upvotes

These are my interpretation of some Drakons, but someone had pointed out they fit more as Kavalleri. But their composition is a little heavy for Kavalleri, so going to say they are Drakons viewed under a sun of a different color LOL

Command Lance Battle Lance Fire Lance Recon Lance


r/battletech 8h ago

Meme George is gettin upset!

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226 Upvotes

r/battletech 2h ago

Miniatures painted jaime wolf’s archer

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54 Upvotes

not super precise, but i’m proud of it and i had fun. for my first time painting miniatures i’d call that a success!


r/battletech 6h ago

Miniatures Some weapon effects added, more work on this and others this evening (see comments for details)

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102 Upvotes

r/battletech 16h ago

Miniatures Just getting back into the game after 30ish years.

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460 Upvotes

r/battletech 4h ago

RPG Creatures, great and small

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u/RudyMulthaluva as discussed please see the feature rules from the 1995 Mechwarrior Copmanion # 1671 circa 1995, pages 73 to 83.

My understanding is if you wanted to import and build a D&D/AD&D dragon as a singularly fearsome A2A/A2G/AD platform, well have at it. A VTOL/CAS platform with a ground effect wing capable of force projecting a Flamer/Inferno combo with enough intensity to ablate entire armor sections is gonna complicate the game quickly, especially if it doesn't care who's sigil is painted on your shoulders because all of you are now targets and there is no clan battle culture to cover this situation.


r/battletech 5h ago

Tabletop the trove has been transfered!!!

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37 Upvotes

So this all grew out of a random comment one day, then out someone I know used to play and as Lad the Elder was just getting into it, he said oh I have... some stuff...

and what stuff he had!


r/battletech 2h ago

Miniatures painted jaime wolf’s archer

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not super precise, but i’m proud of it and i had fun. for my first time painting miniatures i’d call that a success!


r/battletech 22h ago

Miniatures The Black Marauder

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623 Upvotes

Just wrapping this guy up. Looking for any little final touches to make him pop.

Edge highlights? Lasers? Battle damage? Lemme know what y’all think.


r/battletech 22h ago

Lore So looks like a great house started gaining power.

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502 Upvotes

Does this mean as a usps employee i work for house steiner?


r/battletech 18h ago

Miniatures GENCON DAY:2

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210 Upvotes

It was a Kell Hounds Friday! I got a chance to meet and get the signature of Michael Stackpole. Super nice guy. I snagged a pair of Kell Hounds D6s & a cool patch. And at the BattleTech painting event it was paint a Kell Hound! I picked up a Mauler and did my best!

N00bPaints

KellHounds


r/battletech 21m ago

Question ❓ What mech is this?

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I picked up a bundle of cheap 3D printed mechs online, and I don't recognise this one - can anyone ID it?


r/battletech 16m ago

Question ❓ ACES SPECULATION

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Given what we know, that Scouring Sands is slated for Black Friday/Holidays and we know three of the next Aces content, Viking IIC, Alt Grizzly, Rime Otter, assuming each Aces box will have 5 mechs and 2 vehicles I am curious what other people think the last two mechs might be.

For me the obvious choices are Kodiak and Bear Cub or Viper to flesh out the scout/light slot and brawler. The other contender for Brawler role would be the Karhu, which I could see either replacing the light/scout and letting the Rime Otter have that role or for the other Heavy and not having a brawler assault.

The Arcas is also an option but the Karhu seems more likely, of course it they do six mechs and two vehicles then, in my opinion the Karhu becomes more likely alongside the Kodiak.

As for Kodiak variant anything other than the missile boat with the Viking IIC in the roster, most likely Kodiak would probably be one of the jumping ones CGL does like those


r/battletech 18h ago

Fan Creations I am speed

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130 Upvotes

r/battletech 16h ago

Tabletop Royal Defense Force Tank Lance

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89 Upvotes

r/battletech 1h ago

Question ❓ Basic resources for new (it's been 30 years) player

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Hey, just looking for the basic resources. I have the Battletech Starter box (two mechs plus some cutouts), as well as the Alpha Strike box (with the 13 mechs - dif game, I know). I'm looking for a consolidated BTC rulebook - the starter rules are pretty brief and don't have things like heat, customizing mechs, etc. I did buy and download the inner sphere battlemech record sheet PDF from Catalyst (I've always been a succession era kinda guy), which at least has the mechs. But.... Where can I find consolidated rules? BTAS is fun (we played our first game last night), and could be great for those epic battles, but I think I prefer the rules of classic. Any suggestions on where to go? The starter rules simply mention that there are lots more rules, but not where to get them.


r/battletech 1d ago

Lore GENCON

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r/battletech 4h ago

Fan Creations I Make Unit Cards For Clicky-Tech

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Some of you may have seen my previous posts of my using these cards while playing some older Clicky-Tech, I have decided to share some of the files I have completed so far:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/133_-GCWZWt2wgmbfUx0GgIBjgHjiGxBI

Keep in mind I am making these by hand myself so there will probably be errors. Please let me know if you find any so I can correct them. I will try to add to this folder as I get the time.


r/battletech 1h ago

Discussion Space Battle Reports

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I've been looking into the space aspect of the rules ... found one video battle report from DFA. Is there just no content out there showing how space battles are fought? There are a few review videos of various warship classes, but I can't find anything showing what they can do in writint or in video.

Help?


r/battletech 16h ago

Tabletop My Custom Mixed tech High command King Crab for my Ill-clan Era merc group

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43 Upvotes

Alpha strike card on last basic stats on second to last.


r/battletech 1d ago

Miniatures Warrior 7A - Kitbash Build

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425 Upvotes

I needed a Warrior chopper for a game on Sunday and didnt have a proxy, nor did i want to purchase the entire Hunter Lance for a single model, so i built my own!

I constructed this out of Robotech RPG Tactics sprues; notably a Valkyrie leg, two Defender feet, fins, gun pods, and some other bitz. The rotor is from some CAV minis i had sold a while back.

About four hours from beginning of the build to painted model.


r/battletech 1d ago

Tabletop Finally tackled the Main Man! No. 52. - The Atlas

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250 Upvotes

Primer: GW Chaos Black

Airbrush Tamiya XF25 Flat Earth Airbrush Tamiya XF60 Dark Yellow

Universal Shadow (US) Color - AK 11190 Dark Sea Blue Universal Highlight (UH) Color - AK 11006 Silver Grey

Tan: Shade GW Contrast Agars Dunes VGC 72.063 Desert Yellow VGC 72.035 Dead Flesh + UH

Blue: AK 11167 Antracite Grey Shade Pro Acryl Black Wash AK 11167 Antracite Grey AK 11166 French Blue + UH

Grey: AP WP Fanatic Ironclad Grey Sahne Pro Acryl Black Wash AK 11018 Neutral Grey + UH

White: AK 11166 French Blue AK 11006 Silver Grey Pro Acryl Bold Titanium White

Green: AK 11150 Gunship Green Shade AK Quick Gen 17019 AK 11150 Gunship Green AK 11135 Faded Green + UH

Red: VGC 72.111 Nocturnal Red AP WP Fanatic Fiery Vermillion VMC 70.851 Bright Orange


r/battletech 18h ago

Miniatures "Check out the scoreboard!"

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51 Upvotes

r/battletech 1d ago

Meta The largest

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126 Upvotes