Fantastic video of Total War LOS for elevation, trees, and partial cover! Would love to see a video going into water, pits, and buildings if you feel like you want to! No pressure haha. Also, would like to know your opinion of LOS in the advanced rules for tactical operations. For example the dead zones that try to make it more 'real'. Don't know if any other advanced rules mentioned LOS besides the dead zones specifics. Cheers!

aye D12 and mar. makes it easy and works fine.

a great way to get into the factions and stuff is the Battletech video game that came out in 2018. there is some mods that basically overhaul the game to be like an open ended campaign like Roguetech, or the more lore accurate BTA 3062. you get the whole Inner Sphere and you can side with any faction. most of the time if you want a mech, you have to face the faction that has those mechs. both mods also have combined arms with tanks, VTOLs and elementals along side you're mechs. these mods also have every piece of equipment and weapon thats ever been in the game, even super obscure stuff from magazines and whatnot. its awesome. Roguetech can be made lore accurate but BTA basically is out of the box, but it doesn't have mechs past the Jihad era.

Nice! Thank you! Happy New Year

My buddy and I play by the default rules and quite enjoy it, to be frank - and we don't play in tournaments, just the two of us picked it up. *shrug*.

We started using d12s, and have had no issues

Thanks for the explanation. I also checked de d12 method and sure math changes, but i think is more similar to the multiple damage rolls. D12 will hit more easily over 9+ and 2d6 hit more easily in 7+ and under. 8 hit just the same 42%. It kind of depends in what roll is needed more often, also d12 will crit like triple the times than d6s. I did check the math after seeing this video cause i was more curious. D12 will keep the roll distribution of rolling 2d6 for each hit but will crit even more often. Personally the 1 roll and the pilot dice shares same problem and ill prefer having a more even rolls distribution if the damage power is concentrated in a few mechs. In case all mechs have similar damage i dont see a problem in using the pilot dice or even 1 roll damage.

How could you not like a Dragon? Your tastes are icky and wrong and only my tastes are right! (this is not a serious comment) Dragons are pretty good platforms in my experience. They have a decent amount of armor as a heavy, but also tend to move at speeds you more often see in mediums. They also have decently designed weapons packages that fits a good amount of firepower despite the two prior things.

Our group uses the rules out the book, straight up. We are actually fine with that. but the others might be worth checking out

there's no faction you should believe...just be a merc and be your own faction, minmax everyrhing

These are great designs but I wish they were like half the size.

I have all of these products and more vintage battletech stuff but i have the english versions.

and t hat's why i need to get my friends hooked on building their own lances so i'm not the only person i know that buys BT minis

I think his crit method is different from how it's presented. IIRC, in the roll per point method, you choose one set to be the crit chance set. And with the pilot die method, you can only get one per roll set. However, as I've said, this is based off of memory.

Have that one too!!!

Holy snot-burgers. I had no idea that anyone had bothered to publish BattleTech rules in Finnish at all.

Was Total War ever translated? I'd love to have seen how the translator handled that section detailing how infantry troops can't deploy into temperatures below -30C. Easy to imagine a cheeky little note being added there.

This lance is made for a Kurita player… it was boxed especially for players like you. Cyclops, Thug, Dragon, Spider. It’s a 3039 era configuration.

For our second game we played a “technology retrieval” game. And it was extremely fun. We were laughing so hard at how tense and cinematic it made the game. One rule was that in order to retrieve the crashed technology the mech had to have two hands. It came down to two mechs, my crusader and his gun armed mech (forget which one it was clan) I was moving slow and he was taking on a lot of heat by firing literally everything every turn. Finally at 2 hexes away from my side of the board and an assured victory, he blew off one of my arms 😂 (we were playing armor only) at that point we just called it.

Battletech is built for objectives.

So if there the same why not use the rules from book? Pilot die option seems weird to me

Tried it tonight. Worked well.

Could this translate to Alpha Strike? 1 inch away would equal adjacent. I think the woods is a bit different in alpha strike I think it says they are 3 inch’s tall (3 levels) depending on what type of trees.

Thanks for this video! I just picked up the AGOAC box at my local game store (for 50% off) and I got the alpha strike box on sale, but I like the idea of playing alpha strike on the hex maps and this was a great way for me to wrap my head around LOS.

FLOSS

I also ended up choosing the Hell's Horses Post Invasion Era, mainly because of the Protomechs and Combined Arms but also because of the Paintjobs, though I also like Clan Blood spirit a lot. For the actual Clan Invasion i am representing Smoke Jaguar though which is my actual favorite faction. It is too bad they do not really exist post Clan Invasion and the Ilclan ones are far removed from the OG SJs. As for the Succession Wars I also ended up sticking with Kurita.

I like the damage 3+ method a lot, it feels like getting glancing hits and shots deflecting off armour We also play that there is no minimum damage dealt if you roll all 1s and 2s I wish there was a way to combine multiple attack rolls with variable damage rolls...maybe roll an attack for every two damage and then doctje 3+ check? My group probably likes it because it feela the most like warhammer and making hit/wound rolls 🤣

Wow, i didn't know that this game far in the early days. I know about Germany but finland is a surprise.

Oh. And I’d assume it’s also a good method of approaching the enemy the fastest way possible. As you don’t need to rotate as much.

How did you get that mech? Salvage!

I, too, came to settle on Clan Hell's Horses as a main faction. I guess it's a good thing I grew up in the muscle car era and painting flames is second nature. Well met, Trothkin.

Wow thanks.!❤ . Mathematically correct. If you think about it you just squish the hexes more straight or in line to the target. Two lines intersect is clear cut. Plus you get to choose which way to count so avoid the clutter along one way. More tips please!

Played my first round of Alpha Strike on Hex Map when the Clan Kickstarter was delivered... It was a eye opener. Fast, fun, big and challenging. I love it! :-)

I'm also a big DCMS fan. And it's fun to put together thematically coherent units and figuring out how they work. My first showing with a Kurita unit loaded up with C3 was... not great. But there were some standout moments.

This oddly enough one favorite lance next to the command lances and strikers lance.

Hyvää kontsaa, jos satut käymään kuopiossa joskus niin poppaa kuofin discon bt kannulle noottia. 😊

I fucking love the third set of rules. It just feels better. You don't lose all your damage if you miss, and you don't have to roll per hit.

In my experience, introtech mediums also take too long to kill each other due to heat limitations of introtech and poor damage output. Plinking at each other with 7 average damage per turn while either of you have ~150 armor can easily get tedious.

As a Statistics guy appreciate your doing looking at the numbers for us. Fascinating that you did it using Monte Carlo rather than doing the math. In either case I have to say after using the alternate die roll method last weekend in a convention game, even though the crits were more frequent, you are right it does fell more like BattleTech in granularity and at the same time felt it really sped up the game and kept up the pacing and excitement. Loved Classic BT,but, especially with Hvy and Aslt mechs felt like I was just chopping wood. Loving Alpha Strike and the alternate dice. I am going to try the Pilot Die method this weekend. I like rolling fewer dice and not having to search around to match up the colored dice.

I'm an Inner Sphere guy at heart, but when I got my hands on some Clan Mechs, I started looking around. I ended up with the Ghost Bears and fell into a deeeeeep rabbit hole researching their typical Mechs ^^ Luckily, their machines were some of my personal favourites (things like the Kodiak, Mad Dog and the Executioner), so that coupled with the interesting lore made for a great combination. Of course, since then I have begun to do the same for any faction I am interested in playing, so I've started to separate my collection into different boxes to become different forces, mainly based on the lore. Which also lead tome buying more Mechs. So... there's a bit of a risk right there ^^

You're missing out with not playing a Thug. The thug is a more powerful and durable Warhammer. Ugly or not, it's a good mech. Also, don't forget Proxys. You can use just about any mech as a proxy.

I am happy to have found your channel. I too have found 3d terrain pretty and makes the battle more immersive but does make finding lines of sight confusing and have been having to remove the 3d terrain to see the hexes underneath to confirm. Overall, great video and a lot of good wisdom in each battle.

Your ralli English was absolutely peak. Perfect. Obligatory torille!

Got my friend Jani to find me a copy post haste and he actually managed to find one in what looks like pristine condition. Thanks for sharing this video! Also, they did the same with all the Map Packs in our German releases, skipping the first one and going straight to the second (and onward from there).

One trick we use in my group is to put the record sheet inside a page protector and then use a dry erase marker to track your stats. When you’re done just wipe it off and you can use the sheet over again. Very useful in a campaign setting.

Awesome! I love this!

Raipe odottaa jo torilla!

Torille 😂

I didn't know Battletech has such a strong community in Finland. I live just below you in Estonia and have trouble finding people to play with. It would be cool to visit your gaming club sometime!

Hey, thank you soooo much! I'm really happy that you enjoy my apps. Some additional info: When you click on the "more" button at the bottom of the Recog Trainer screen, you can enable "Ace Spotter" mode (hard mode) and also set up a Time Attack game. Clicking on the "?" in the GATOR Trainer, lets you configure some stuff like dice colors. All of the apps were made for a mobile phone's vertical screen layout, which is why they look a little strange on a large computer screen 😅 And last but not least, on my website you can also find a free player aid PDF for classic Battletech, solo practice rules and a travel version of the game. Again, thank you for playing with the apps and creating Battletech content!