Battletech Public Playtest Thread

[payn]

I once tried making Pulse Lasers behave like you described (along with machine guns, hit for 1 dmg in 3 locations), but in the end we shelved it since it slowed things down even more, and we just kind of accepted that BattleTech has a lot of “reality-bending” quirks that just come with the game.

I mean, we have become really proficient with delivering damage locations building doom boxes to deal out up to 20 single points from an LBX and such. Doling out pulse laser damage wouldn't even make us blink. Though, yeah I get it folks want to scale back on classic as is.

 

[TheHand]

I mean, we have become really proficient with delivering damage locations building doom boxes to deal out up to 20 single points from an LBX and such. Doling out pulse laser damage wouldn't even make us blink. Though, yeah I get it folks want to scale back on classic as is.

I think we must have less patience in our games, maybe because we don’t get to play so often. Even a couple SRM-6’s makes us squirm these days, though we have joked about playing all SRM-carriers before.

 

[RenleyRenfield]

Oi! Is this for BattleTech RPG? Or just the minis wargame?

I am wanting to run BattleTech as a ttrpg, and use my mini's and the classic rules for mech battles. I have all of my original Mechwarrior rpg books, but I have never run BattleTech as a mixed rpg/wargame.

So I am looking for advice on how best to context switch from RP to Mini back to RP...

Is this the right thread to ask these questions our should I start a new one?

Cheers!

 

[payn]

Oi! Is this for BattleTech RPG? Or just the minis wargame?

I am wanting to run BattleTech as a ttrpg, and use my mini's and the classic rules for mech battles. I have all of my original Mechwarrior rpg books, but I have never run BattleTech as a mixed rpg/wargame.

So I am looking for advice on how best to context switch from RP to Mini back to RP...

Is this the right thread to ask these questions our should I start a new one?

Cheers!

New thread started to discuss the RPG.

Thread 'Battletech RPG'

Today at 3:52 PM

Greetings,

We got a thread going about the Classic Battletech playtest rules currently on going here. This thread is specifically about the RPG and folks experiences with it. @RenleyRenfield

Battletech RPG History

The beginning;
Battletech was a wargame originally dropped in 84 as Battle Droids (but uh some folks didnt like that legally speaking). It wouldnt be long after when the wargame would get an RPG treatment named Mechwarrior in '86. This game would focus on the setting along with doing things outside the mech cockpit. Such as forming...

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[Mustrum_Ridcully]

An idea that had occurred for me in terms of hit location splits and the like:
When a hit location is chosen (randomly or by called shot), and a weapon has some kind of spray/clustering feature implied (long burn lasers, missile clusters, whatever), the defender may split the damage (rounding up) to a second, adjacent location. That could really speed up resolving such features.

 

[payn]

We do something similar to this for speed.

 

[TheHand]

I like both of these ideas! I think I’ll try them out!