If you can put a imperial knight on a 6x4 board you can put a locust or Jenner.
atlas may be a bit big...

#mechtober today is all about Robert Charrette. I had the chance to speak to him on the latest episode of episode of my Star Wars podcast, Full of Sith, and he told me where the word "seyla" came from. https://www.patreon.com/swankmotron/posts/star-wars-and-be-171709398

Newish fan to the setting, been getting very into mw5, and am curious about if there are any good write-ups about how mechanics in MW5(things like Mech Movement, mechbay repairs/modifications, etc etc) differ from how a merc company would experience these within the setting, not looking to pick a fight just curious to understand where the deviations are.

My son is 9 years old and plays a modified version of the game. He was gifted a number of battletech minis, most have numbers on underside of base and are easily indentifiable, but we have a few, here are 3, that we require some community assistance with as there are no numbers. I did my best to get good photos, the blue and black primed ones were a bit hard to photograph.

Wow! This is an incredible community! You guys helped out my kiddo so much yesterday. We have 4 more minis he was gifted that AI keeps giving a range of IDs to, so we can’t figure them out. Please help ID these last 4 mechs that we can’t get a set ID on. If you have Sarna links even better!

He is so excited! He now has 30 minis and we are starting to paint.

Also, I had a couple DMs regarding our modified game for younger folks. We are working on finalizing the rules and play engine, but once we finish the next round of play tests I’ll publish here. Designed for 8 to 12 year olds, but certainly younger kids who read and reason well will have no issues. It is absolutely free and open source for personal use. Designed to feed the bug for playing Alpha Strike once older.

Hello all,

As the title says. I would like to find some screenshots of some of the mechs from the MW5: Mercenaries game. The game did a really good job of selling the sense of scope of these machines when they're in the bay, and I'm hoping to use some of these to "introduce" the mechs in a campaign.

Hoping someone here is the hyper-attentive archivist I'm looking for. Thanks!

I have four versions of the Grififn painted up and ready to go, and I probably won't paint another one! The last one was the Catalyst Game Labs version, but honestly I feel like it's not really a Griffin without the helmet hoses!

Planning to get some actual boxes this weekend but this is my first owned mech now :)

Mechwarriors: The next generation of BattleTech terrain is finally here!

Lorescape, the officially licenced modular terrain system designed for BattleTech, launches today on Kickstarter.

Made to expand, elevate and customise your existing maps, these hex-tiles fit seamlessly into the existing ecosystem with hexes sized to fit printed maps and mech-bases, and with biome matched graphics on the tiles including essential features like cover and rough terrain.

Terrain packs are available for Grassland, Desert, Lunar, Tundra and the new core box maps, with more to come in stretch goals.

Along with the terrain packs come a range of accessories to aid in your battles, missions and campaigns. These include a range of transparent tile caps that add extra cover, buildings, effects and mission markers.

The entire system is light-weight, high-quality, easy to use, efficient to store, compact to transport, and durable.

We also support the integration of other products such as buildings, trees, and rocks, via our open-source clip-on interface and hex-clip system.

The next generation of BattleTech terrain deploys today. Elevate your battles and back the campaign at: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lorefoundry/lorescape-battletech

(Posted with kind permission of the mods)

Sorry if this is a 101 kind of question but I have only read a couple books before clan invasion and watched the old school cartoon and played some of the hairbrain Arano game.

I assumed the concept of mechs that could be customized per mission would standardize mech to single chassis’s per weight or even less than mechs in general but it does seem like there are TONS of mechs for clans

Based on a recent lore discussion about differences between Mechwarrior and Battletech.

I am not the original artist. I made this to see what the Mech looks like without the cross section.

Now that we've started getting second and third variants of various chassis, Catalyst has started lifting some of the design motifs from the Project Phoenix versions of the various unseen mechs and applying those details to their reimagined New Classics designs. We saw this with the alternative "sunroof" cockpit option for the Davion battle lance Thunderbolt and the top wing details for the Rifleman C 2 in the Scouring Sands box.

Which mech do we think will/want to be the next unseen to get some Project Phoenix details reborn? The Capellan Aces box has been announced as containing a Griffin 5L and I think there's a decent chance we see some of the language from the rest of the GRF-5x series carry over into it, but I'm curious if anyone has other stuff they'd like to see

Hey Pilots, I was in the store browsing Paints when I came across 2 force packs. They're both about $34 but I only have the budget for 1. Which is the better choice? I'm new to the hobby and only have 8 mechs so far I've collected Piece meal.

Update: Somebody asked so I'll post my mech collection here for reference.

1. King Crab

2. Stone Rhino

3. Rifleman

4. Thug

5. Centurion

6. Scarabus

7. Ostroc

8. Ostsol

9. Ostwar

Anyone else feel like this?

Another incredible piece of artwork for the Wraith video I produced for Youtube.

This is another one by Jayden Morris, this time depicting a Word of Blake Wraith (Praise Blake!), fighting against a Ghost Bear Locust IIC.

Jayden always delivers incredible artwork, and I'm over the moon for his contributions for this video. It's awesome.

At the end of the book it implies the dried up river at freeport was dammed underground and Comstar blowing up the cave entrance triggered a failsafe to flood the SLDF bunker. Is that right? The only thing that got salvaged was the memory core? The rest got destroyed by the flood?

The 3025 4xUrbies in a trench coat Annihilator is a love/hate mech. I like it. Others hate it’s lack of range, low armor and speed(which makes the range thing worse)

What’s possible in 3025 settings without making it expensive?

Jaginator! or 2x Jagermechs in an overcoat.
Take 1 3025 ANH-1A, remove the 4xAC10, Ammo and 8 heat sinks

Refit with
4xAC2, 4xAC5, 2t Ac2 + 2t Ac5 ammo.(Med lasers stay the same)

Result: Lower BV/c-bill cost and 28pt damage heat neutral fire power hitting at the max 3025 ranges possible.
Still slow, still 2x ‘Jagermechs’ of armour but cheap as chips and great for long range ‘crit fishing’, and vtol sniping!

Who’s riding a mobile flak tower with me? 😆

A quick build for tabletop scenery. turning the black cylinder moves red gantry up and down to accommodate different sized mechs.

Anyone know where to find those particular models anymore? Ive checked for the salvage boxes and there's one for $58 in Bangkok. Any stl ive found are different variants or pretty crudely made.

Been collecting lance miniatures to paint for a little while already. I guess it’s time to actually start learning to play the tabletop. Are the playing pieces considered game legal still?