An Introduction to the Game of Armored Combat

Getting Started with Battletech

Expanding on the Starter Boxes – Books and Inner Sphere

Expanding on the Starter Boxes – Clans and Mercenaries

Playing your First Game

The Goonformat

Hextech 3d Terrain for Battletech

Alpha Strike

Dominions Divided

Paint Starter Set

New Mech Variants – Record Sheets Jihad and Dark Ages

New Mech Variants – Record Sheets 3150

New Mech Variants – Rec Guide 33

New Tank Variants – Rec Guide 33

Basic Tactics and Playing High Tech vs Low Tech

Main Gun Combatmath

How to Make a Good Lance

Unit Roles

Basic Guide to Movement

Pest Control: How to Kill Elementals

Alpha Strike Special Pilot Abilities – A thru M

Alpha Strike Special Pilot Abilities – N thru Z

Common List Archetypes: Part 1

Specialized Armor and How to Defeat it

A Basic Guide to Tanks

Infantry Overview

Special Autocannon Ammunition

Why Perigrin Hates Clan Mechs

Era Overview

Faction Overview – Successor States

Faction Overview – Invader Clans

Faction Overview – Mercenaries

Mech Overviews are a detailed dive into a mech where we take a look at all the available variants and whether they’re an effective use of your BV. In order to keep everything on the same footing, we’re assuming you’re playing in the IlClan era and are using things like specialized ammo. We’re also assuming that you’re playing one-off games, as campaigns can be very different depending on how you’re tracking ammunition, maintenance, and what kind of narrative opponents you’re fighting. Any of the mechs below with a colored image can be clicked on to read their overview, and the greyed out mechs are still coming soon. If there’s anything you’re specifically interested in, please reach out!

When we review mechs we think about how effective each variant is, and give it a letter grade. These grades are generally comparable across mechs, not just looking at it alone.

• F – Hellishly overpriced for what you get, and/or a blatantly worse version of a very similar mech that fills its role much better for minimal/no extra cost. Example – Executioner F
• D – Overpriced for what you get, or so sub-optimally designed that no amount of being cheap will help it. Example – Shadow Hawk 2H
• C – Unexciting for the price, but not offensively bad or overpriced. May also be given to situationally awesome mechs with serious downsides, or to mechs that are too inconsistent/swingy to rate higher. Example – Nova B
• B – Good for the price, uses high-efficiency weapons or simply has a very efficient and good set of weapons. Rarely has significant issues and will almost always find something valuable to do during a match. Example – Catapult K2
• A – Excellent for the price, cramming a huge amount of value into a low BV cost or simply having completely overwhelming firepower and armor. Will basically always make it’s BV back, unless you get hit with an unlucky headshot or other one shot. Example – Thunderbolt (C)
• S – Game warpingly powerful. Once one player in the local group starts taking this mech, everyone else is forced to respond to it and it will rapidly begin to completely define every game it is present for. Generally abuses edge-case rules or is simply so incredibly powerful that the BV system can’t adequately track it. I recommend warning your opponent if you are bringing these and not taking them to pick-up games at all. Examples – Fireball XF, Hellstar 1, Boggart 2, and any mech with iATMs.