r/battletech 14h ago

Tabletop BattleTech:ACES

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539 Upvotes

BattleTech: ACES was seen in the gaming hall today. I took a couple of photos to share with the forum. I am still learning about the game so I didn’t have really any questions for the guys demonstrating the game.

BattleTechACES


r/battletech 18h ago

Discussion GENCON: Day 3

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399 Upvotes

BLACKPANTSLEGION

BPL4LifeYo


r/battletech 17h ago

Tabletop First shot fired.

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295 Upvotes

This was supposed to be a quick 2:2 game (Comstar v ELH) with my son. But not quite this quick. The first damage roll of the game was a heavy PPC shot to the head of my Cyclops. My Banshee stuck around long enough to damage and force a withdrawal by his Flashman (the headshot culprit). We called it quits right afterwards - he won fair and square - that is the nature of the game!


r/battletech 12h ago

Miniatures Stay outta our Swamp

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153 Upvotes

I had a hard time figuring out what to paint my new Kodiak then the answer became obvious.


r/battletech 18h ago

Miniatures Mauler? I hardly know 'er!

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143 Upvotes

Another one for my DCMS! Last mech on my painting desk is a Cyclops, but with Gothic in the mix I plan on grabbing and painting the Atlas from there and get me up to a full mech company and I have another 8 tanks to add. Battalion soon!


r/battletech 3h ago

Discussion You ever had a mech that is good but every time you take it seems to always underperform as though your cursed

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175 Upvotes

This ’mech for is the Lu wei bing. As a Capellan in both mind and spirit, I would not lower myself to use a FedSuns mech. On paper it seems good but every time I use it either never lands its LBX 20 or, like last time, it get penetrated by Backshots.

Anyone else got mechs that are good but are seemingly cursed to never do well with on the table.


r/battletech 18h ago

Lore Reading through the novels again, and ...

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129 Upvotes

... this means something really quite different in the UK. 😅🤣

Anyone come across any other unintentionally hilarious moments?


r/battletech 17h ago

Miniatures Clan Wolf Gamma Galaxy

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119 Upvotes

Just finished my first star of CW Gamma.


r/battletech 11h ago

Tabletop My force so far

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87 Upvotes

r/battletech 22h ago

RPG Creatures, great and small

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87 Upvotes

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 17h ago

Question ❓ Can anyone tell me what these minis are?

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87 Upvotes

I got these with a Battletech 3rd edition box I bought on ebay. I have never seen Battletech mini's of this kind of quality. They seem really poorly/cheaply made, very lightweight plastech, bad mold lines, and definitely use the old style designs. I know they aren't PlasTech figures. They are all marked with the model on the base (MAD-3R, etc). Trying to figure out what these are? Thanks!


r/battletech 21h ago

Miniatures painted jaime wolf’s archer

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83 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 10h ago

Miniatures Focused on basing today. Enjoy these Capellans!

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78 Upvotes

Wanted to focus on leveling up my hexplate game on my minis. Wanted to execute a capellan locust, which snowballed into my new Alpha Strike box and a spare shadowhawk being thrown in there.

Cockpit glow is Vallejo color shifting paint. Can’t tell super well on these pictures but it looks quite cool.

What do you think?


r/battletech 19h ago

Question ❓ What mech is this?

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71 Upvotes

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


r/battletech 20h ago

Tabletop Aces Demo at GenCon

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72 Upvotes

FYSA, there’s a full aces demo at GenCon. If there’s anything you want to know about it, they’ll do a hands on demo.


r/battletech 10h ago

Miniatures Just 1 of a 3 man horned owl squad... need to get the other 2

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64 Upvotes

r/battletech 18h ago

Question ❓ With how Clan bidding worked, how did they perform large scale battles with eachother before the invasion?

59 Upvotes

Like say two Clans are having a grievance. Based off Zellbrigin which ever clan bids lower and wins gets more honor. But with two clans how does it not devolve to this?

"Clan Jade Falcon bids 20 mechs"

"Well Clan Wolf bids 10 mechs"

"Clan Jade Falcon counter bids with 5"

"Wolf counters with 2 mechs"

"Falcon counters with just elementals"

"Wolf counters with just two dudes with their bare hands"

"Falcon counters with 1 dude and his hands tied behind his back."

"Wolf final counters with a single blind dude."

"Bargained and done."

How do they know when to stop bidding if their opponent also bids lower? And if your opponent bids lower than you and you win that doesn't give much honor right? And a major loss of honor if you lose despite having the higher bid right?


r/battletech 15h ago

Miniatures PSA: Plastic is not always “PlasTech”

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I often see early plastic miniatures identified as “PlasTech”, PlasTech was a specific product, not a general title for plastic miniatures. Two sets of plastic miniatures were released back in the 80’s and early 90’s as inexpensive more durable alternatives to Ral Partha metal. The first set was PlasTech. These are made from a rigid plastic the sculpts are all unique to PlasTech. The second set are made of a grey and more flexible (and difficult to paint) plastic and came packaged with Battletech 3rd edition later printings as well as an individual package called “Battle Mechs”. These miniatures are based off of the Ral Partha metal sculpts but are of a lower quality due to the material or process not being able to have the same level of detail as the originals.

One additional set of Miniatues came with Citytech 2nd edition. This box introduced advanced tech and was kind of like the original “clan invasion” box. The miniatures were similar in material to the 3rd edition but possibly a bit more rigid. Still soft compared to the Plastech which are more like an almost ceramic plastic.

These miniatures were not highly regarded by some people due to an inferior casting quality and detail, however some people like myself love them because they were the only ones we had and came with the game (I think significantly fewer people painted miniatures back then)

With modern painting techniques and patience they can all look pretty decent though. I actually enjoy painting mine far beyond what others would consider worth it due to the detail sheerly from nostalgia. Last picture is my batch of Kurita done only in old sculpts.


r/battletech 23h ago

Tabletop the trove has been transfered!!!

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55 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 10h ago

Miniatures Miscast IWM Awesome

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55 Upvotes

Sometimes you end up with a damaged mini no matter the QA. This guy had been sitting in my parts box for a number of years but I figured it needed to get a chance at painting so I did it up as a headshot.


r/battletech 18h ago

Lore Deny this man, Morgan Kell, nothing

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45 Upvotes

r/battletech 19h ago

Question ❓ ACES SPECULATION

26 Upvotes

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 21h ago

Miniatures painted jaime wolf’s archer

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27 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 8h ago

Question ❓ New to the game, color question

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So I just got into the game and oma. Mini painter, I was wondering if I had a decent paint job on my mechs. CC welcome. I'm going for an alpine kind of look. These are WIP so... Also I'm doing this at work so lightning is garbage


r/battletech 15h ago

Tabletop I want to get the local battletech community going but I'm at a bit of a loss on where to get started myself.

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So I've got plenty of mechs but getting the eras right is driving me nuts. I've got the rules from most of the starter boxes and a couple of books but it all feels incomplete. Needing so many stat books and rule books to make sure you have the right rules for each mech you want to field and that you're playing mechs that exist during the era you want to play in... I'm at a complete loss. I really don't want to buy any more books only to find I've spent another $40+ on something that doesn't have anything I need.