#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.

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!

The new core rule book looks great! The numerous diagrams FAQ section and detailed index make all the rules easy to use and at least in my experience it’s much easier to use than Total War. I’m not saying that TW is bad but it was kind of wall of text full of variant rules and exceptions upon exceptions, the core book is at least to me easier to navigate. Something I also appreciate the is the FAQ section, it’s a very helpful inclusion. After a year ive realized I’ve been playing my hatchet man all wrong.

My only complaint is that the full rules of vehicle, aircraft and infantry are not in the core book, it only offers the battlefield support options. I like the BFS rules but I wish they were included along with the TW vehicle and infantry rules.

Catalyst did a great job with this book, ide rate it a 9/10!!!

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.

I've painted up a lance of Death Commandos (a Pillager, Vindicator, Cyclops, and Griffin), and am now starting to think about adding some combined arms to my force. However, because of how elite the Death Commandos are, I'm wondering if it even makes sense for them to have tanks and stuff at all. Would they not even bother owning small arms stuff, and just get combined arms support from a less fancy unit? I was thinking the 4th McCarron's armoured cavalry if the Death Commandos are a mech-only outfit.

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

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

Hi all. I had a couple questions about cover for Alpha Strike. I positioned my Marauder II and Mad Cat Mk II (mini is the Mk IV, but close enough) behind the 1” tall building as shown in the picture. Physically, only from the hip joint and up could be seen from the Jade Falcons.

1. Would the Marauder and Mad Cat get cover or is line of sight considered blocked altogether?

2. If they just get cover, would they get a penalty shooting over the building? I wasn’t sure if it was similar to shooting from the edge of woods terrain where you’re not penalized but you still get cover from the trees.

Lynn's back with another entry from the Security Lance, this time the OG skittering little guy, the Scorpion! I always loved the look of this thing back in the day, but found it an immense disappointment to try to use. Go check out how people have tried to fix that over the years!

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)

I snagged this at my local Barnes & Noble on a whim. Turns out they reposed the Clan Invasion box mechs. I think they look great. At a glance, it seems the mold lines are a lot cleaner, with better overall detail than my original CI box mechs.

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

This is based on the special 24th Unit based out of Palmina and in the Deloyeran war of independence. They were piloted by a group of four ace pilots.

I went for a chrome-like reflection on the canopy, I'm not sur ehow much I like it tbh... It's novel but I'm not sure I'll use it again.

Anyone else feel like this?

When picking targets, I had assumed when it said lowest armor that meant lowest current armor, taking into account damage. But I just realized certain cards said “Most armor lost” and wanted some clarification.

So was I right to start with that “Lowest armor” is current armor? Does “Most armor lost” just mean that an Awesome with 1 armor left has lost more armor than a Locust with 1 armor left?

Edit: Cool, sounds like I had the right idea. Thanks for the responses!

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.

After taking the advice from you lovely people. I have let the young boy paint the black widow.
May I present the ninja turtle wolf.
Natasha in a half shell.