Category: BattleTech

The idea of a map-based Hot Spot was one of the first new ideas that was decided on for Draconis Reach, but for a long time there were many questions about exactly how it would be printed. In particular, what would be on the back side. At one point, the map was envisioned as a…

For the BattleTech Clan Invasion kickstarter, my friendly local game store (Hangar 18 Hobbies) was selected to be one of the kickoff event hosts. They had some BattleTech events lined up, but I offered to do an Alpha Strike game as part of it.I wanted to do something similar to the BattleTech Grinder, an event…

I am a big fan of the old Succession Wars board game, a strategic conquer the Inner Sphere game released by FASA in the long ago times. The rules had some clunkiness, and some hard to decipher sections, but did an excellent job of meeting my hopes to conquer the Inner Sphere. I played a…

There have been some great content coming out as resources for new Alpha Strike players that I wanted to collect as a reference. BattleTech: Alpha Strike Box Set The new box set is shipping out from the distributor this week (as of 11/22/22). Catalyst Game Labs online store is expected to have it for order…

Savage Baron took the Nashira Campaign and gave it a fancy new look and feel. In addition to a general cosmetic update, Savage Baron created a world map for Nashira, Alpha Strike cards for the new variants, and new Savannah mapsheet. Take a look! If you’re not familiar with the Nashira campaign, it’s a scenario…

Based on a Discord discussion about how to get started with building a force to play BattleTech that was based on faction. Just a short couple pages on each faction to introduce them. BattleTech – Introduction to Faction Force Building

This is a pair of quick reference PDF of the movement cost tables for Alpha Strike if using hex maps and a summary and page reference for Special Abilities on unit. For the movement cost table, there was a split in preference among those that want to convert unit’s MV from inches to hexes first,…

I heard several people asking about RATs for ilClan. Though it says to use FM:3145, there are new ‘mechs in the book and from the Recognition Guides that postdate the 3145 RATs, particularly for Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon. So I made some. I had no involvement with the ilClan sourcebook, these are just my…

At long last the Battle of Tukayyid sourcebook was released. And one of the first responses after “ooh, look at that cover” was “why isn’t the Kodiak on the random tables?” The short answer was, the tables were not intended to cover every ‘mech that could possibly be on Tukayyid, but after a number of…

I wrote this BattleTech campaign specifically for new players getting A Game of Armored Combat and Beginner Box sets. At the time, there was already an announcement of an upcoming Succesion Wars campaign that I thought would do the same, so I impatiently released it myself as a fanwork. Perhaps if I’d had more paitence,…