Great tutorial man. I play in a campaign with about 8 other players and they will get a kick out of this software. Thanks again.

When you're playing on hex maps the key thing to remember for intervening is equal to or greater height anywhere along the LOS between both units, equal to or higher than the attacker adjacent to the attacker, and the same with the defender. Almost Good Variant recently made a good illustrative video on LOS and intervening terrain: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHnSoqaYfNpoaas

8:44 Objection! It's not necessarily true that Battledroids handled things the same way - using critical hits as an example, crits transferring when a location ran out of critable slots, was brand new in Battletech Manual, and wasn't present in 2nd Edition or Battledroids. Similarly, Battledroids was just a Yes/No for critical hits - if you rolled a 12 on determining critical hits... it was just one critical hit, not 3 (or limb blown off)

Legend has it that there's deep space weirdos with a 75 ton cavalry-juggernaut-brawler.

Dude, line of sight on the board is confusing. I still mess up lol. - Dan

Thanks for the video and WOW HISS tanks!

The dice tower with the tables is brilliant.

The whole "higher elevations defeat partial cover" really emphasized that high ground for your long-range direct shooters. Especially since it also would defeat full cover for a vehicle or infantry.

In the original rules (flat hexmaps) it was way easier... Behind a hex with height 1, or inside a water or wood hex partial cover. Behind a wood hex or a height 2 hex no LOS. 😊

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Nice indi reference

4:10 Do remember that this only applies to that specific pair of units in question. You can claim cover against all units except the ones you're going to shoot at.

I am in SoCal, where are you? I like that you take the rules seriously.

Good video. I love to see Geo-Hex setups. Since the Army Painter Target Lock Laser Line came out we've had a lot less LOS issues but the continuing controversies are elevation and road movement. These have less of a community consensus because terrain is often made to be more realistic but doesn't perfectly match the hexes. Better explained-if your using Geo-Hex or a similar more realistic terrain with angled elevation changes then how do you decide what level your at? I like to play it as once you're on an angled grade you are on the next higher level and a hex is defined as being higher if 3 dots out of 4 are on the grade. Even then you have to explain to the 40K converts that the 3D terrain is only representative and not exact so you have to use TW elevation rules. Laser dots won't show what's really hidden behind terrain because if the hexes were the same scale as the mechs the hexes would each have to be over 4 inches across! Also Geo-Hex is 5/8s of an inch tall when at mech scale a level should be real close to an inch. Most of the custom stuff I've seem is at 3/4 inch. Another conundrum is how to handle road movement for roads that don't follow exactly with the hexes but resemble a real world pattern. Making them match the hexes is often impractical as well as plain unrealistic. Do you just allow a free half turn to travel with the road and have them face the same direction at the end of movement or what? I'd really like to hear your as well as others opinions and solutions for these. I've started multiple discussion threads on forums over the years to come up with a community accepted standard but usually get very few helpful responses. Sorry for the long one- I'm usually the groups "Terrain Guy ."

I suffered through the commercials on the video in hopes you'd get some mazuma.

Good music and more important good hints ;-) Thanks!

At least this isn’t about you getting off on grooming kids. You’ve been posting some creepy shit, dude! Good luck out there…

I can't get the p3 paint what color would be close to the p3 in. AK paint or citadel or army painter. Anything close to it. Thanks for any help

Adam and I want to go one of these years.

Lucas sued Battlestar Galactica creators. But when you see 1978 episodes of The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, you see an ice battle, and people getting into an underground bunker to stop a gun that can destroy motherships. And then we see 1980 and 1983 Lucas movies with an ice battle, and people getting into an underground bunker to stop a gun that can destroy motherships In 1980 we see a shot of the full galaxy, signing that Lucas did not solve reach of space travel. And years later we see space politics in episode 1 and a galactic map. To me this looks like he tried to bring stuff from Battletech into Star Wars. Without Marcia, the product was very different than his previous movies. So I believe Star Wars tried to assimilate Battletech. It ended up becoming a prequel I did not like. But then Filoni made it likable. However Star Wars decided to tell the history of the Skywalker family while Battletech left it open for any party to be a protagonist.

PATOR (Physical attack) P +Piloting skill attacker A + Physical attacker modifiers table + Standard attacker modifiers T + Standard target movement modifiers + Piloting skill attacker (only for charge or DFA) - Piloting skill target (only for charge or DFA) O +2 (punch, if attacker has no lower arm actuator) +1 (punch, if attacker has no hand actuator) +4 (physical weapon, if punch/kick table is declared for aimed hit) +0 (DFA, no terrain modifier) +Other modifiers except sensor and heat modifiers R Not applicable = Target number for physical attack

The mechs provided is balanced with 5 clan mechs vs 2 lances of 4 Inner Sphere mechs?

You should add this video to the games page on the Board Game Geek website.

I always wanted to play on them but I never got the chance. But I did play on the Army's SimNet!

Thanks for the video! I used this method on the jumping Shadow Hawk and the Hatchman. Looks great! I did swap out the nuln oil with a 50/50 mix of contrast medium and Basilicanum Grey which worked just as well.

DFAs are a trap option