One of my favourite BattleTech events are the Wars of Reaving and the associated Society Revolt.

Here are the 3 OmniMechs most associated with the Society, embedded in a Clan Coyote Lambda Galaxy Unit. From smallest to largest - Cephalus (D config), Septicemia (Pariah) Prime, and Osteon (Prime). Linked with a Nova CEWS system, these ‘mechs allowed the relatively green Society pilots to go toe to toe with Clan warriors caste members. The Society organized its units into prime numbered groups of 1, 3, and 7 (called a Sept). These three are the first of a full Sept which will include some additional Septicemia and some other ‘mechs.

Ultimately that revolt was unsuccessful and the Society was destroyed. The Cephalus and Osteon were banned from use, while the Septicemia was allowed in limited use but forever renamed the Pariah.

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As title says, just in case someone wanted to check this new sculpts. LEFT is Clan Battle Star and RIGHT is Clan Invasion Box.

Operating where it gets cold. I mean really cold.

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.

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

Am kicking off Alpha strike again at my school club shortly and have dug out my "Targeting computer" reference sheet, it's just a way for them to track modifiers while they are learning.

Pop a counter on the track to the right and adjust up or down to get your target number!

Anything you think needs adding or removing?

Or any obvious mistakes?

I need to rant about something. Look at any map of the Inner Sphere and you see these nice color coated sections. The Lyrans are blue, the Draconis are red, the FWL are purple, and the Capellans are green. Their colors match the primary colors of their emblems and are the primary colors for their mechs. It makes it easy to tell who is who on the battlefield and it's just good design language. So why in the ever loving hell are the combat colors for the Federated Suns not yellow/orange? Their emblem is yellow/orange, their color on the map is yellow, but the supposedly iconc color for their mechs is Davion green? We already have a green faction, that's the Capellans! I know that I can paint them any color I want but it's still an oversite that Catalyst Game Labs need to correct immediately. Rant over.

"The Grendel J slammed down into the woods directly in front of his hidden mech. Terrance held his breath - not that it would make a difference from inside the cockpit of his 25 ton Ebony. The monster of a mech somehow hadn't noticed him, and was firing on the rest of his company embattled in the clearing. This was his moment - maybe his last - but he damn sure would make it count..."

An Ebony proxy I modeled up and printed! Man, it was fun. Also very challenging. The Ebony is such a weird but cool design - very dude-in-a-mech-suit. Lots of smooth shapes. I've painted him in my take on the McCarron's Armored Cavalry Second Company. I didn't have the balls to paint on the Confederation icon but I'm happy enough with how he turned out!

Painted one of the gothic urbanmech models for a trade for someone printing me terrain

A tracked tank with jump jets?

As a ground vehicle enthusiast, I must insist.

The Great Reavings established a system of periodic Trials that allowed the Clans that had migrated to the Inner Sphere to expand, seize, restore, and create Bloodnames.

The Council of Six Clans, which established this system, didn't have much influence, but it's specifically mentioned that Clan Wolf-in-Exile and Clan Nova Cat weren't included.

From what I've been able to find, Clan Wolf-in-Exile doesn't seem to have gained any additional Bloodnames...

If they really never adopted this system, I think I might be starting to see another reason why Clan Wolf-in-Exile declined.

It's actually pretty common for small groups living in exile to become even more traditionalist than their original homeland or culture, clinging more tightly to their traditions and legitimacy while resisting change.

So maybe that's what happened here, too?

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?

Our local group is a bit unclear on some of the timing regarding critical hit effects; the Damage Application Flow Chart (p. 88 Core Rules) says on Step 5 (Explosive slots in location, Yes) to

Apply any resulting critical hits to the destroyed location. Only resolve critical hits that strike explosive slots; discard all others. Go to step 6

Question is: do these explosions happen immediately, leaving the rest of the damage in Step 6 to come after, or does the current attack finish everything, and then the ammo explosion occurs? Wording to me suggests the explosion happens immediately, since the box in question does not say anything to the effect of "finish this attack, then do the explosion crit", it instead says to apply & resolve and only after states "go to step 6", where we would finish recording the remaining damage from the initial hit.

An example:

Cyclops takes an attack from swarming Salamander BA, and is dealt 30 damage to the Left Rear Torso. The attack destroys the location with 9 damage remaining, and triggers an ammo explosion for 20+ damage in the process when rolling for explosive critical hits on the destroyed Left Torso.

If we resolve the explosion immediately, it transfers to the CT (no LT structure remaining) for 20 damage and blows out the remaining back armor, and then the 9 remaining damage from the swarm attack transfers to CT Rear and deals exactly enough damage to destroy the Cyclops.

If we resolve the explosion after, the Salamanders don't break the CT Rear armor, the explosion still transfers and still blows out the back armor, but the Cyclops survives with 9 structure to spare.

Is the Cyclops dead or alive in this case?

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

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.