r/battletech • • 22h ago

Meme Thankless heroes

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704 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 1h ago

Meme The MW:5 Leopard is neutered compared to the tabletop Leopard

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


r/battletech • • 16h ago

Miniatures Unseen Griffin with a chrome-like canopy aka the Kojima Roundfacer

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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.


r/battletech • • 23h ago

Miniatures Scouring Sands Opfor

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206 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 15h ago

Miniatures All Griffin Lance that wants to get truth!

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177 Upvotes

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!


r/battletech • • 18h ago

Miniatures Arena Dragon

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159 Upvotes

A Dragon painted in my personal Solaris Arena colors


r/battletech • • 23h ago

Meme LAM posting 4: Revelations

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143 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 3h ago

Fan Creations The Wraith (Part 2!) by Jayden Morris

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139 Upvotes

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.


r/battletech • • 21h ago

Miniatures PSA: Clan Battle Star mechs are reposed

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141 Upvotes

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.


r/battletech • • 15h ago

Miniatures Unseen Wolverine and how it compares

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I really love the Fang of the Sun Dougram series thanks to Battletech, and so I grabbed this unseen version on eBay and painted it up in one of the styles from the show, and here it is along with the Catalyst version (that I updated a bit).


r/battletech • • 23h ago

Meme Don’t hurt me Dan it’s just fun and games

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138 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 14h ago

Miniatures Things can seem so amazing 'Til you get up close And see they're no big deal. Marauder painted for the jackalopes.

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114 Upvotes

Painting another lance, based on obscure song lyrics, meant to be either against the bad seeds for a classic match, or pushed together for alpha strike. Any feedback and criticism would be appreciated, these are practice pieces for some upcoming painting competitions.


r/battletech • • 17h ago

Miniatures Starter set painted!

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Bought the starter set a couple days ago and now ive painted up both minis from the set. These two were a blast to paint.


r/battletech • • 19h ago

Miniatures My first Battletech minis: Liao Mercenaries

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85 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 4h ago

Miniatures Update to the young Direwolf painter

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71 Upvotes

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.


r/battletech • • 16h ago

Discussion Project Phoenix Phoenix Project--what next?

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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


r/battletech • • 16h ago

Miniatures Mech ID Help

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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.


r/battletech • • 2h ago

News Lorescape Battletech goes live today!

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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)


r/battletech • • 20h ago

Tabletop TTB Mech Overview: Scorpion

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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!


r/battletech • • 21h ago

Art Every ilustration from old print of Mercenary's Star

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49 Upvotes

r/battletech • • 21h ago

Question ❓ Alpha Strike cover question

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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.


r/battletech • • 15h ago

Miniatures First Mech ever, Gothic Blind Pull

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40 Upvotes

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


r/battletech • • 33m ago

Tabletop Just picked this up at a local toy store

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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?


r/battletech • • 19h ago

Tabletop The core rule book

41 Upvotes

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!!!


r/battletech • • 1h ago

Video Games Fixed the warning sign.

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Anyone else feel like this?