Alpha Strike New Players

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

Nashira Campaign: Powered Up!

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

Introduction to Faction Force Building for BattleTech

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

Alpha Strike Movement Cost Table for Hex Maps and Unit Special Ability Reference

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,

ilClan Force Creation and RATs

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

Battle of Tukayyid Expanded Force Creation

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

Nashira Campaign

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,

More BattleTech

More random stuff that needed a home. The Combat Manuals (Lite) has been a series I’ve “hosted” just as a forum post for a long time. Making a home for them here.

Designing a Narukami

Third TR 3145 Designing a … post, and the first design I actually did and the first that got published is the Narukami. Another open-ended “requirement”.  A Kuritan assault tank.  Now, as most Kuritan players are aware, the DCMS isn’t all that respectful of its armor forces, and the TRs haven’t given them a lot

Designing a Stalker

Part two in the I have no idea how long Designing a.. series. After having fun with the Narukami and Sarath, I thought I was done.  But jymset came to me and said he had a new addition that needed stats ASAP.  A Stalker II, and it needed to be “boss as ***K”.  No idea