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[Exilyth]

... and done are the days of fiddling around with BTMR + Maxtech. Finally.

I've got two books larger than BTMR to look up rules in now.

Not that that is a bad thing.

One of the changes with the most impact for me so far is that cockpit command consoles lost the restriction to heavy and asault mechs - they just won't provide the initiative bonus to anything lighter than a heavy.

This is so nice - now I can finally construct that command medium I had in mind for my recon elements.

Edited by Exilyth, 25 April 2018 - 12:54 PM.

[Karl Streiger]

TacOps has also some great optional rules for combat - but you should really be careful what you choose.
(When you enemy uses a great numbers of LBX and SRMs - the new wood-cover will turn his weapons impotent)

Wasn't there a BMR rule (based on City Tech) that allowed a Dual Cockpit (one pilot for moving the other for gunning) - the new Command Console just put both "items" together.

I think there was only one major change - how AMS worked - and the moving through water rule was altered (In my BTMR - translated) - moving through water was suicide (-1 to hit for your enemy and the punchtable) - I don't know how many Mechs my BlackJack OC - slaugthered while they tried to cross a river.

[Koniving]

In regards to water: Believe its minus one to hit, meaning its easier to hit them (due to their reduced ability to dodge/block), but anything hitting legs was either nullified and in water depth of 2 (12 meters), anything hitting the torsos/arms other than the head got reduced damage.

At least this is the way my Megamek is handling it with pretty much all the compatible rules except nukes turned on.

[Exilyth]

Too bad I'll have to wait for Strategic Operations until the core rule book reprint in Q3: https://bg.battletec...oming-releases/

Not that I don't have enough new rules to learn for now...

Silly rule interaction I found:
Weapon delivered minefields always land on top of buildings.
Firing e.g. Thunder-LRM from inside a building into another hex of the same building magically warps the mines to the roof. Even when the building is higher than the maximum range of the weapon.

Imagine a Catapult walking into a street level shopping mall in a skyscraper, letting loose missiles straight at the mall security - only for the resulting minefield to litter the penthouse balcony. "Honey, why is there a vibromine in the Jacuzzi?"

I think I'll have to read that section again. Or use advanced building construction rules and designate the street level shopping mall of my skyscraper as a hangar structure.

Karl Streiger, on 25 April 2018 - 11:10 PM, said:

Wasn't there a BMR rule (based on City Tech) that allowed a Dual Cockpit (one pilot for moving the other for gunning) - the new Command Console just put both "items" together.

Indeed, according to
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Dual_Cockpit
and
http://www.sarna.net...Command_Console
dual cockpits have been somewhat apocryphical and non-canon, but now got merged into the command console.