One thing I do want to get into a bit more this time is playing around with combined forces, not just ‘Mech on ‘Mech but including more vehicles and infantry. I also have the current boxed set coming which includes 8 more (Battlemaster, Awesome, Catapult, Wolverine, Shadow Hawk, Locust, Commando and Stinger) so I’ll have pretty good options to play around with right off the bat as I consider what else I may want to pick up. Just to check them out I did order one of the Lance packs that was available, containing the Warhammer, Rifleman, Phoenix Hawk and Wasp. The main drawback to them is they only seem to come in Lance/Star packs and availability seems kind of spotty, but I’m patient and can wait for reprints. So with that, I have some thoughts about where I want to take my re-entry into this world and maybe some questions about what it looks like right now.įirst up is miniatures, I had dabbled in Mechwarrior: Dark Age when it was out and I recall that at that point Battletech was renamed as Classic Battletech to differentiate it, with Ironwind Metals taking over miniature production from Ral Partha, which it looks like they’re still doing, in metal.Ĭonfusing things a bit is that Catalyst seems to be doing their own line of minis in plastic and the scale, while close, doesn’t seem to be completely consistent between them and the style definitely is not.įor ‘Mechs, I’m planning on sticking with the plastics, I like the style of the redesigns and while I loved the Ral Partha minis back in the day, many of those sculpts have not aged well, the internal scaling of the Catalyst line seems more consistent, too. Do they have a name for that, btw? ISTR back in the day there was Levels 1, 2 and 3 with Level 1 being the basic 3025-era stuff, Level 2 being the more advanced Inner Sphere and Clan stuff and Level 3 being more an anything goes that included more 'experimental' kind of items. That's just as well because while I may change my mind at some point, right now I'm basically only interested in the 3025-era. Oddly I still have my 3025//58 record sheet books but not the 3050. I still have a handful of minis but none of the better metal figures, mostly the cheaper plastics that came in various boxed sets and a few of the books. I'm figuring this can be more general talk about anything and everything to do with these games.įor my part I played a lot of Battletech back in the day, starting with the 3rd Edition boxed set which came out in 1992, and probably through the early aughts, gradually dropping off, selling off a lot of my minis and books over the years. Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them.As mentioned in the 3025 TRO WIR thread I had thought about trying to start up a new thread for more general discussion about the game(s) rather than cluttering that one up with too much off-topic stuff, so here we are. Remainder Mark - A remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or Sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the UPC symbol on the back of the book.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn." Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn." The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice.Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price. Boardgame counters are punched, unless noted.Major defects and/or missing components are noted separately.Example, EX+ is an item between Excellent and Near Mint condition. A "plus" sign indicates that an item is close to the next highest condition.When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition. Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents.
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