3. Battle of Easterwich | BattleTech Alpha Strike Battle Report | Tamar Rising Chaos Campaign

[@kylerogers8948]

Glorious, I’m on the third battle of this binge watch, and I’m loving it. The confusion, the surprise, the game of strategic chicken. Hilarious.

[@garethevans2926]

Same! I came here from Sven van der Planks Lore channel. Love that, and love this, awesome work ❤

[@zekec6519]

This campaign format is so good. Normally I play more traditional historic wargames but this is really doing it for me.

[@WargamerStories]

I am glad you're enjoying the campaign! Our setting is BattleTech and sci-fi, but the players draw their inspiration and some of their strategic ideas from historical battles and wars.

[@majorplothole2620]

The first two battles kinda made me think the Chupacabras had a huge leg up, but this battle shows just how confusing fog of war, and such is. the fact that both teams bumbled into each other expecting the other to retreat or feint, was absolutely hilarious. The battle no one wanted, and the most deadly in the manner of mech lossage in the war so far. I love it. lol

[@yungchris6044]

I love the colored bases to make it easier to distinguish which player the Mechs belong to. I get the “oh they’re facing that direction” but it’s those small details that are icing on the cake

[@charlesashe-nn2sf]

This is top tier Battletech battle reporting. ^_^

[@WargamerStories]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy them!

[@garethevans2926]

100%

[@andersonfaleiro6527]

The strategic layer at the beginning of the video adds a whole deeper meaning to the battles. The risks and decisions made make all the difference in the outcome of losses and gains. The quality keeps rising. Let's move on to the next one haha

[@Deusorum]

Nice to see House Korbyn step things up after those early successes by the Chupacabras!

[@kelanelam2638]

The look of these battle reports are awesome, and you explain everything very well. One note: on Turn 2, the Zeus took a fire control critical. That critical would not take effect until until the next turn (unless you have a house rule that says differently).

[@WargamerStories]

Yep, that was a mistake on our part for that battle. Other battles we started to implement critical damage effects in the following rounds.

[@SimoneRistori]

Excellent storytelling! Bravo

[@Redmow51]

I am really loving this. Campaign games just add all kinds of choices you have to make for the long term.

[@ronaldshockley3383]

I'm so glad I stumbled on to this series. Great battle reports. Love the way the campaign works, and the narration is definitely top motch .I will definitely share it with my group.

[@johnw5154]

Thanks for the reports. I prefer classic BT but appreciate the effort that you have put into the systems and reports. Great to watch. Thanks. Please keep them coming.

[@WargamerStories]

Glad you like them!

[@xGamermonkeyx]

Have been binging these videos today and they're really good! Really fantastic production value, and very sharp and succinct batrep which is a rarity in the tabletop genre on youtube! I hope to see more down the line!

[@felix34ever1]

This is amazing! Such amazing campaign, i aspire to do this with a bunch of friends

[@silentbob4100]

Hey look, a comment to help this channel with the algorithm. By now you might think its done by a bot, but i just want more content!

[@christopherthompson4026]

Love your channel! Wasn’t even into alpha strike but dang these videos have made me want to try it. Great job!

[@jimnicholas7334]

The problem of trying to predict the enemy's movements is that moment when you're really just projecting your own onto them xD

[@PaulGaither]

"They are just trying to draw us off." Okay, so, what if they are? Can we afford to not support their defense? Can we afford to weaken oir forces here by providing support? Should we issue a retreat order to them and organize a counter attack to take the city back? Etc etc etc.

[@Vognee]

Didn’t know I wanted content like this, but apparently I do

[@bobafett1186]

These reports are amazing!

[@zsoltbartha900]

Such a good show! Let's make more! I have studio-quality stuff!

[@peterarlington223]

Not sure if it’s a thing in Alpha Strike, I’ve only ever played classic, but I’d have gone for the building at 15:50 instead of the mech. Blow up the giant stationary building and the mechs on top will take fall damage during the building collapse - especially if the building has a basement, making it a two level fall. For that matter I’d probably have done my artillery shot at the building too, get both before firing a shot and letting my mechs take on others instead - could have really turned the match another way. But only if fall damage from building works the same in Alpha Strike as it does in CBT?

[@WargamerStories]

I don't know if they are the same, but yes fall damage is a factor in Alpha Strike. The players started doing this when they got more comfortable in urban battles later in the war.

[@Rynas]

Nice presentation

[@WargamerStories]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jasonfrazier422]

This was awesome. I'm really loving this series.

[@WargamerStories]

We're glad you're enjoying the battle reports!

[@klasclaywood2667]

What a cool board!

[@WargamerStories]

Thanks! Half the fun is building the battle space. The other half is running your army across it!

[@mortenjensen9714]

This is brilliant. More like this please. 🙂

[@Kaiju-Driver]

What a fight!

[@redman457]

epic man more of this!

[@anthonycontreras5003]

Maybe set these battles up as like battle tech flash points on a playlists? Give you a chance for a story. I really like 👍 🍻

[@leonardogoncalves5372]

amazing work

[@Subcomandante73]

Another great battle report.

[@TRexFlame9]

So invested in this already 😁😁😁

[@Reccedog]

This is phenominal!

[@brent1975]

Very cool video. I really like the story driven game. Can you tell us where to get the houses and colored bases?

[@WargamerStories]

colored bases were picked up off an Etsy retailer, just search for colored hex bases and you can find a few vendors who make them with different colors and have different prices and shipping. The houses were bought as STLs off MyMiniFactory. My local library has a 3D printer with very, very cheap prices. Here is the link to the artist who designed and sold the houses: www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-10mm-scale-medieval-houses-201234

[@WargamerStories]

Hey, I found the store I bought my colored hex bases from off Etsy. But shop around, see if you can find a good deal. www.etsy.com/listing/1120122891/battletech-numbered-hex-team-markers

[@obsidiananubis1017]

Greatly enjoying your videos, where did you get your small houses?

[@WargamerStories]

They were 3D printed. I bought the STLs at MyMiniFactory and my local library does 3D printing for a very, very small fee. www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-10mm-scale-medieval-houses-201234

[@legomech1946]

I'm catching up on these after just (happily!) discovering your channel, and I am loving them! However, I'm thrown off by you applying most critical hit results immediately while also allowing destroyed mechs to counter-attack. All combat resolution is simultaneous (except for that one weird SPA) so everyone returns fire as if the current damage and crits did not happen, then all crits are applied for the next turn. The main benefit of winning initiative is that if you know your Blackhawk is already dead, no reason not to use that sweet overheat 4 value when you counter-attack. Maybe you are using some alternate rule I'm not aware of? Regardless of that one oddity, I absolutely love the presentation and the narrative campaign!

[@WargamerStories]

That was our error in the earlier part of the campaign. We don't apply critical effects now until the next turn as the campaign progresses. I am glad you found us and our enjoying the campaign!

[@zpafford]

That was fun

[@jameshojnowski8455]

As I play more Alpha Strike, I've learned Skill 4 and even 5 aren't that big of an issue. So what if your assault has Skill 2? He's a big target, versus a smaller swarm of little guys.

[@RonofArr]

Huge material loss for the Chupacabra's, the battle turned on it's head when that Zeus went down

[@RecklessFables]

If individual battles are capped at a certain number of units, does outnumbering really matter once you've filled all of the slots? Or maybe I heard wrong the first time I went through the series?

[@WargamerStories]

repairs cost time and money. If you lose mechs and cannot replace them, then eventually the side with the most mechs can start to have the upper hand. This starts to become evident in later battle reports where one side is struggling to have fully repaired mechs and doing battle against fresh mechs.

[@Ooittee]

I am really enjoying these but I cant for the life of me work out the order that they should be played in. any chance of renaming them in sequence.