I’m afraid you missed I’m referencing my immediately previous post. I’m well aware of the extant BT/MW games.Several boardgames, really...
I probably missed a few...
- Battletech (and in original editions, Citytech) - Mechs, tanks, platoons of infantry. a
- Aerotech/Battlespace: space fighters, dropships, later jumpships.
- Battleforce 1: alternate larger scale for battletech, with much reduced detail; Still, one mech or tank per token on the map.
- Battleforce 2: even larger scale; can handle entire planetary invasions.
- Succession Wars: Whole galaxy counters on map, regiments+ per counter.
And the RPGs...
- Mechwarrior: RPG that can generate the scores used in Battletech, Aerotech, etc. A number of different versions, each mostly incompatible,
- 1E is a GURPS knockoff - it worked
- 2E is a "priorities" character design. it worked, too.
- I cannot speak to later ones
- Mechwarrior: Destiny - alternate RPG, less detailed, makes use of reduced stats for tanks, space fighters, Mechs, etc. Intended to be more narrativist than
No. It's not a forgotten backwater approach.
It's a "We blasted ourselves back to the Information Age in 5 huge civil wars because we couldn't agree who would take over the Star League."
Later, the Clans, who didn't participate in the Succession Wars, come in with retained League Tech...
Can't say that it is. Only a few of the factions have anything like chivalric orders.
Still, it has an elitism to mechwarriors that is parallel to dark ages nights.
Were it not for the physics of projectile weapons, Battletech would be pretty straight-laced; that they get the size/range relationship backwards (Real world: Bigger guns go further; BT: smaller ones go further). It's not at all intended as humor.
I was talking about a mechacentric game where there were analogues of low-riders, stance, neon/wrapped, rat rods, squat, etc. car cultures, making the already improbable batllemechs even more surreal.
For example, going into a battle in a modified MadCat with legs half as tall as normal, with a purple metal flake paint job with candy-apple red pinstriping, a neon kit, and a booming system.
Or a chromed-out Phoenix Hawk convertible.
Or an Atlas with a monster truck like extra big legs for jumping, plus a smoke generator system.
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