battlemech

The BattleTech Alpha Strike starter box is here, and it's fantastic. We're taking a look at everything in the box and how playing your first games will feel.

We return to our mech overviews looking at the Griffin, the other mech found in the Beginners Box.

While mechs are the stars of Battletech, it's a full combined-arms game. Today we're looking at how to fight against clan elementals.

In this weeks Mech Overview we're taking a look at all the different variants of the Vindicator, one of the two mechs in the current beginner box.

Howdy tube-men and welcome to our first Mech Overview, focusing in on the game stats of different mechs and their variants and how to best use them. Mechs are obviously the main draw of Battletech, and everyone will be...

The extent of force composition rules in Battletech are simple Battle Value (BV) balancing - both sides should end up with approximately the same total. The simplicity of these rules commonly causes a divide between people who prefer to spend that BV budget on more mechs or spend it on better mechs. As with nearly everything in Battletech, there's very little consensus on which is better.

Force contstruction in Battletech is mechanically simple but conceptually complex. Peri works through two different methods of building a lance and what tools you'll need.

This week the Hammer of Math comes over to Battletech, where we break down how the various "main guns" perform.

Welcome back to more Battletech. We have covered the starter boxes, currently available units, books, and other products, as well as a brief primer on the factions and timeline. This week we will talk about actually playing your first few games of the big cool robot game, and what a "Standard" game of Battletech even is.

Battletech has a lot of factions. Up this week are the Invader Clans, the seven animal themed, Mongol empire LARPing, stupidly high tech, deranged honor cults who invaded from deep space. There are many more Clans, but the Homeworld Clans are mostly Free Worlds League levels of insignificant.