![]() ![]() ![]() Chief among them is the MechWarrior series of action games that put you right in the cockpit of a BattleMech. Modern BattleTech is more approachable than ever.Įven if you’ve never encountered the tabletop game before, there’s a good chance you’re at least aware of BattleTech’s setting through the various video game adaptations that have been knocking around since the ‘80s. Probably a good thing for a wargame setting, really! While there are conventional tanks, infantry and so on, the focus is on 12-metre-tall (give or take) BattleMechs, powered by fusion engines and stuffed with as much weaponry and armour as their 20 to 100-ton frames can carry. Containing around 2,000 habitable planets which were once united as the Star League, there are now a bunch of factions duking it out for territory and resources. Set roughly a thousand years from now, humanity has colonised a chunk of our galaxy known as the Inner Sphere. There is an overwhelming amount of background material available for BattleTech, but the core is pretty simple. The release trailer for BattleTech's video game adaptation At the same time Catalyst Game Labs, the game’s current steward, has spent the last few years releasing a range of products that make the game more approachable than ever. As a result, the game has decades of fiction, sourcebooks and miniatures that are all as relevant as the day they were first produced. My initial encounter with BattleTech was the fourth-edition box released way back in 1996 and, while not quite as far in the dim and distant past as my first forays into Warhammer, the game I played then was pretty much the same as it is now. It wasn’t a hard sell I make no secret of my love for giant robots, and it’s not the first time I’ve played the game. I’ve recently gotten into BattleTech in a big way after a regular gaming pal dragged me in. If you’re tired of three-year edition cycles and regular sweeping rules changes, I have the perfect game for you: BattleTech. While I’m very excited for the release of Warhammer 40,000: 10th Edition, it’s still annoying that a bunch of books on my shelf are going to be completely invalidated, and I really feel for the Astra Militarum and World Eaters players who will get less than a year’s use out of their codices before the new edition drops. ![]()
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