Valkyrie

#battletech #miniatures #miniaturepainting

What's up my thudes! This time we are heading to weebville, the Draconis Combine, who are probably mighty pissed other people are stealing their valuable cultural heritage, Mobile Suit Gundam. I have assigned them the Gundam SEED miniatures, because somebody's gotta take 'em.

#Battletech #AlphaStrike #paintingMinis #miniatures #painting #paintingMiniatures #miniaturePainting #Gundam #Gunpla

I'm debating whether I should get the 40th Anniversary AGOC or the Alpha Strike box set (or the Clan Invasion box).

On one hand, I like the AGOC mechs better and I'd like a Thunderbolt, Catapult, Battlemaster and Wasp. On the other hand, Alpha strike I can use to introduce the game to other potential players and it has more mechs, although the only one I'm really into is the Wraith.

But the most important problem is that the Nova in the AS box has a waist. That offends me.

#battletech

Some kitbashes based on 3d printed Battletech models.
The first two, contain a lot of Gundam Artifact in them.
Also, the pinup on the first is painted over a decal (almost fully. It was originally blue, astronaut, and lighthearted).
For size reference, they are all on 40mm bases.

#MiniaturePainting #Nerdlings #Grimdark #Battletech #GundamArtifact #Kitbashing

"You don't understand how different the rule changes are. #wh40k updates rules for the sake of making a new edition. #battletech alpha strike updates rules to fix massive incongruities resulting from trying to merge the crunch of classic with the scope of battleforce. These things are not the same

For example infantry used to be able to attack on the same turn that they disembark from an external transport. This made sense in battleforce which skipped over the fine details of infantry-vs-mech combat but reintroducing swarm attacks allowed fast vtols to practically teleport battle armor onto the feet of mechs on the opposite end of the table.

It also used to take infantry 30 turns to disembark from a civilian cargo transport. (AS:CE, pg. 39) This was changed because the only thing stopping you from swapping the cargo space for infantry space is your supply of printer ink. The rule wasn't removed, it still takes thirty turns to unbox the lemun russ and fill it with fuel and ammo and slowly guide it down the cargo ramp, but now infantry are exempt due to their ability to remove themselves from the container and take their stuff with them.

Now you warhammer players are probably thinking 'why is there an action that takes 30 turns to complete', and it's because battletech's rules are meant to be comprehensive. Alpha Strike is not the same game as normal battletech so i won't be surprised to see this rule get changed further"

- me explaining tabletop editions to grognards

#щоденник | поновлення java

коротка підказка зі встановлення чи поновлення java (jdk) в arch-базованих дистрибутивах linux. навіщо? бо я випадково дізнався про #megamek і мені захотілося запустити #mekhq і витратити декілька днів на #обчр (пробачте дідові, він ще памʼятає часи, коли випасався на москальському луркморі), тобто #battletech англійською =)

https://codeberg.org/tivasyk/blog.text/src/branch/master/posts/2026/2026-06-02-java-update.markdown

#підказка #українською про #linux

@rada

Played a game of Battletech yesterday. My Hellbringer and Summoner entered a canyon to search for a Bandit Caste base. The mission was going well and the Summoner was going to escape with the base location until it took a Clan ERPPC to the face just before it could exit the map. The rest of the mini campaign was downhill from there.

#battletech