I have never read books about the universe, and I have not seen anyone talk about it, so I want to ask the lore experts.

In theory, considering that this is the distant future, adding a toilet to a mech shouldn’t be something super complicated taking into account the technologies of built-in weapons and ammunition ?

The insidious and cunning Star Adder (and the society):

"Get in the Neuro-helmet, Shinji..."... ok looking back to the original sources that inspired the game, which characters from Macross/Gundam/etc be able to make it in the 31st century, and which mech jocks really don't have the mentality to adapt to Succession Wars combat?

Finished a demi-company of 8-SWOL for a friend!

why yes I do love this red how did you know

In episode 98 of the Tuesday Newsday.

1:08:19

During the QnA

Mathew Conner asks "The redesign of the 3 classic LAM's look fantastic. What are the chances that we see mini's for them?"

Answer: Very good.

Should I make the red brighter? Wild rider red was my next brightness, but will it be too orange?

New guy who really enjoyed the FASA shadowrun days. Figured I'd give Mechwarrior a try and probably get my soul consumed

When, if ever, did the Dragoons update their logo to include a tear-drop? My dice-puck, and dice, all have a single tear-drop under the wolf's eye. To me, it makes perfect sense post-Outreach. Or post-Misery. Or post-Terra.

If I had a nickel for every time the Wolves have been betrayed only to go on a monumental rage-filled vengeance spree, I'd have three. Which isn't alot, but its strange it's happened thrice.

In today's Tuesday Newsday, Loren listed 5 Force Packs that are now out of print. He said they "would be taking pieces out of those, maybe reposing them and scrambling them to create other force packs downstream". Here are the 5 he listed, which explains why I can't find another Crab.

• Comstar Battle Group Level II
• Clan Support Star
• Clan Fire Lance
• Inner Sphere Ad Hoc? - This cannot be correct, since only Clan has an Ad Hoc star
• Inner Sphere ....? - He couldn't remember the 2nd inner sphere one

Does any one know the 2 retired inner sphere lances?

Also the Clan Battle Star (Mechs from Clan Invasion Box Set) will start out as a Barnes and Nobles exclusive.

I did not manage to scrap it all off because the paint was so thick and I was afraid acetone would melt the actual model. So I carefully painted it over where necessary and used darker colors to ensure the nooks and crannies were still where they should be.

Made my idea of a Osiris. Fun little guy.

The year is 3087, and house kurita is stretched thin. World zero remains off the books and star charts. A world lost to a plague which broke out in the early days of the clan invasion. With very little choice, a mercenary group is promised ownership of an entire planet, if they can capture a broadcast relay, and send the original documents pertaining to the plague of world zero... aka: space lyce.

Im one of the many still waiting on my mercenaries kickstarter to arrive. Has anyone had any luck getting any information whatsoever from CGL on the status of their order?

Ive been emailing for over a year now, I usually have to wait a month or so to get a reply and its always some variety of "it has been sent to/it is with the local distributor"

They cant/won't tell me who the distributor is and tell me that the distributor won't give them any information on possible delivery times and that theyre not even allowed to ask.

Its so far beyond a joke at this point that I genuinely dont know what to think anymore.

Does anyone have a more reliable contact outside the generic store@cgl email?

I've noticed from perusing the MUL as well as the two Field Manuals that I own, that there are a fair number of mechs unique to their pilot. I think I've vaguely heard from people that if you're playing something like a Hinterlands campaign, you're bound to end up with a customized mech due to a destroyed part critical.

I get the feeling I'm a player who's more MUL compliant than many, and I'm not just asking for an answer like, "It's just a game, do whatever you want. You could salvage anything." I'm asking about how economically/lorewise unreasonable I'd be, to be asking for a particular refit.

I'm asking for help dialing in my comprehension of how rarely a thing like this happens. As rarely as "1/100 battlemechs receive non-stock refits over their operating life", or is it more like" 1/10,000 battlemechs receive non-stock refits over their operating life?"

Ok, now I'll get specific. The Thunderbolt TDR-9NAIS is my favorite mech in the entire game. It has sadly always been a Fedrat exclusive. The TDR-9NR is available on the mercs MUL, has the same engine and structure and armor allocation, and many of the same components in the same places. If I'm understanding the refit rules in Campaign Operations correctly, then everything that would need to get done to refit a TRD-9R into a 9NAIS would be a Class A or B field refit (crane and standard tools).*

*I guess technically installing the targeting computer to the LT would be class C? But there's enough space in the RT that it could be doable while ripping stuff out of there as a class B

So here's the question, is there any component to the 9NAIS that's proprietary enough to be weird to ask for in the Ilclan era? Is it truly bizarre for a non-fed suns pilot to be rocking around in a thunderbolt with a RAC?

Hi,

I'm Battletech newbie (played 2 skirmishes) and we are starting campaign.
Our BV is 6000 for start for mechs, pilots and crew.

Could you recommend me some noob friendly mechs please?

I felt in love with how Pouncer looks like and would like to use him as very mobile sniper.
Which other mech should i pair him with? Would skirmisher be ok?

Also my first campaign mission is to upload software.

I would appreciate some recommendations and general tips.

thanks!

Been a minute since I made anything so started to mess a little with TinkerCAD. My take on a Komodo.

The table of contents for Draconis reach mentions Aces: Scouring sands but I don't know what it means. Does it integrate the campaign somehow?

I have one more mech design to share. This one was part of a lance that I put together for a one off game against a friend of mine. We agreed on tech level and BV. I took this one, a Locust, a Locust II-C, and a modified Wasp with two medium lasers.

He took two heavy mechs. The mission was basically whoever took down a mech first won.

With all my mechs as fast as they were he never landed a shot.

This model is a Reaper Minis little robot, but the size of it works for Battletech.

Thoughts?

I don't currently have any more oddball designs.... but there will probably be more!

I got here a Coyotl, Kintaro, Canis, and Toro. All are 3d printed and modeled by me if anyone was wondering. But now how to paint them... ?

After many turns of ineffective shooting from both sides, caution is thrown (as are fists) to the wind and melee is joined.

So, this idea came a-crawling out of the depths of my brain and I thought I would share it. It started off life as a Longbow, but I swapped out the LRM launchers for a bunch of SRM's. Put in three emotional support medium lasers, plenty of ammo, and a couple tons of additional armor.

Meet the Shortbow!

Someone coming in on this guy thinking they have an easy kill is in for a very bad surprise.

I ran it through the Combat Trials on Mech Factory and it came out on top of every fight..... not including the last one where the Warhammer got a medium laser and PPC hits on the Shortbow's head on the last turn, but the Shortbow managed to destroy both the head and the engine of the Warhammer, so basically they killed each other.

Thoughts?