The Reboot of Battletech franchise, new miniatures?
#1
Posted 02 December 2011 - 05:42 AM
Many companies which sell TT miniatures have started to sell their existing stock at discount prices.
Could that be interpeted as that there will be new range of battletech miniatures?
Does anyone have any viable info on the subject?
#2
Posted 02 December 2011 - 05:56 AM
#3
Posted 02 December 2011 - 06:10 AM
Saranpää, on 02 December 2011 - 05:42 AM, said:
Could that be interpeted as that there will be new range of battletech miniatures?
Could also be seen as Christmas sales, of the store owner trying to move stock.
Iron Wind pushes out a couple of new minis every month, and as GoW says they have everything you would want.
#4
Posted 02 December 2011 - 07:55 AM
#5
Posted 02 December 2011 - 08:04 AM
#6
Posted 02 December 2011 - 08:11 AM
Got some empty space on the shelf that needs filling, after all.
#7
Posted 02 December 2011 - 08:35 AM
I couldn't see The Powers That Be reboot the boardgame like that, if Dark Age click game taught us anything its the possible idea of a reboot is bad to think about.
However there is fan sculpting! IWM will gladly take your money, make a sculpt, give you store credit, and sell that new mini on their site. In fact that's part of the reason why there is such backlogging on their releases. They've actually shut down the fan sculpt program for a little bit so they can get caught up.
#10
Posted 02 December 2011 - 12:58 PM
Alexis works looks good for MW but in CBT it starts to look a little too
much like Heavy Gear.
Is there any word on updating the rule systems at all? maybe tweaking
the system to handle more than 4 mechs on the board within a reasonable
amount of time?
which has always been the bane of getting a game going, I can wrap up a
500pt 40k game within 30min-1hr....a 5k game of btech? arg!
#11
Posted 02 December 2011 - 01:53 PM
#12
Posted 02 December 2011 - 01:55 PM
#13
Posted 02 December 2011 - 02:36 PM
Atlas3060, on 02 December 2011 - 01:53 PM, said:
no offense, but after playing the normal btech; and reading the quick strike rules quick strike would be more appealing to newer players and overall feels better for todays tabletop :I
I like CBT just wish it could do certain aspects either better or faster
#14
Posted 02 December 2011 - 02:39 PM
Whenever we help the local Demo Agent we also play the quick start rules you can download from the site in order to introduce the new players.
And they have been creating Quick Strike record sheets as fast as possible for every era of play so you have a selection between normal and Quick Strike.
#15
Posted 02 December 2011 - 02:56 PM
Kami Shinigami, on 02 December 2011 - 11:24 AM, said:
Clickytech is one of the worst things to happen to Battletech
Because it was more popular? Let me see, there's still at least one Battletech group in the cities around me I think but I would have to go look to find them, don't have much advertising. "Clickytech" on the other hand when it was in full swing I could find 2-3 game tournaments at least 4 days a week depending how far I wanted to travel. Yeah the stats were simplified to crap and beyond but I played way more games with way more people and had more fun. Also have not seen much from Ironwind to rival the Dropship I got from that game. Though that wasn't fun to use so much as just looked awesome, even with the IW minatures.
Atlas3060, on 02 December 2011 - 02:39 PM, said:
Woah...really? Will have to look for these. I liked Battletech but honestly the number of dice rolls in that game felt ridiculous when Wh40K rolled much quicker with more units on the table. I sort of wished they could bring Battletech down to a Warmachine like system, with the stat cards etc. Wouldn't be as detailed but certainly faster.
I did like the look of the Quick Strike rules/stats though. Only missing some of the fun rules which look compatible anyway. Some of the depth is great but when the game runs slow on small comparative scale it can be hard to get others into it.
#16
Posted 02 December 2011 - 03:12 PM
Karyudo-ds, on 02 December 2011 - 02:56 PM, said:
From the depths of the Internets I command these links to RRRRIIIIISSSSEEE!
Downloads section for Battletech which also has the quickie rules for Quick Strike and free Quick Strike sheets for the introductory boxed set 'Mechs. There's also free downloads for Battleforce counters in case you don't have minis.
http://bg.battletech.com/?page_id=27
Now onto the stuff that costs money.
Quick Strike sheets for designs in 3039. Cost $5.99 and its also a PDF. The great thing about Battleshop is they'll alert you if they have news about a product you bought, let's say they've gone and updated some things...you get the ability to download that fixed version for free since you already bought it earlier!
http://www.battlecor...roducts_id=2439
Quick Strike sheets for 3050 tech! Cost $5.99 same song and dance as before about product alerts.
http://www.battlecor...roducts_id=2502
Quick Strike sheets for 3055 designs. Cost is $5.99 same song and dance as before about product alerts.
http://www.battlecor...roducts_id=2889
And that's not all! Designs for 3060 all for the low low price of....$5.99!
http://www.battlecor...roducts_id=2650
The Battletech crew is slowly but surely trying to show that Quick Strike can be a valid system of play, it might never replace the old methods but its a fun new dynamic into the Universe.
#17
Posted 02 December 2011 - 08:18 PM
barring a major rewrite of the old system, its an 'evolutionary' dead end
I've come to grips with that
#18
Posted 03 December 2011 - 09:42 AM
lahyenne, on 02 December 2011 - 01:55 PM, said:
This basically. It is 10 years behind.
#19
Posted 03 December 2011 - 12:03 PM
Folks that follow BT news, know that part of the reason we have not yet gotten a full set of High end plastic minis for the new box set (and a full set of the clan 3050 omnis in plastic) is due to Topps fears about another debacle like clickytech. (they have a fear of plastic it seems)
- really I hope we can get some premium plastic sculpts (like the Hellbringer, and Summoner premium Plastic models in the 25th anniversary set), for common IS designs, and all of the 3050 omnis. (after all we have accurate cg models of all of them now, in all standard configs).
#20
Posted 03 December 2011 - 12:34 PM
fire rate of a normal autocannon...but they are depicted
with up to 6 barrels!? meanwhile the Inner Sphere invents
Rotary A\Cs that look exactly the same but can fire
up to 6 times!?
that doesnt make any design aesthetic sense! I had never
seen a depiction of UA\C's being multi-barrel, I had always
just assume it worked off a double-action internal in
the firing mechanism.... <facepalm>
and I never undertood why PPC's have 5 little holes on
the end of the barrel...
Edited by Aaron DeChavilier, 03 December 2011 - 12:34 PM.
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