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doolallymagpie · 9 months

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BattleTech 🤝 40K

Your IT guy dresses like a wizard because he’s in a cult

#battletech #warhammer 40000 #comstar #adeptus mechanicus #body horror tw

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highlander-732b · 13 days

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Guillotine in my custom color scheme (now with basing!)

Presumably a GLT-3N or a GLT-8D variant on account of the lasers.

#battletech #mecha #mechwarrior #miniatures #mechposting #sci fi #mechanical design #ComStar #mercenaries

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gorqueen · 4 months

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It’s time to start ‘mech posting! My first mech to share is my Black Knight.

Being one of my favourite ‘mechs I wanted to give it the love it deserved and therefore I wanted to associate it with one of my favourite video games. Mystery of the Druids!!

I think it came out pretty well but I am considering adding in some accent colours to the mech to break it up more. I was considering adding white around the fists and forearm.

#battletech #mystery of the druids #black knight #minitures #painting #freehand #mechwarrior #comstar

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cantsayidont · 6 months

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May (?) 1992. Few fictional universes (even Tolkien's) can rival the depth of lore found in the tabletop wargame BATTLETECH and its RPG spinoff MECHWARRIOR, which encompasses over a thousand years of absurdly detailed future history, and the rise, fall, and disintegration of an interstellar Star League into an array of warring feudal states. Until recently, a central feature of that universe was ComStar, the former Star League communications ministry, which reinvented itself as a quasi-religious mystic order, jealously guarding its virtual monopoly on the faster-than-light communications vital to interstellar trade and diplomacy. ComStar was headquartered on Earth, which it controlled as a Vatican-like independent micro-state. Ostensibly a neutral party that could be called upon to arbitrate disputes (as well as issuing the only universally accepted currency), they were secretly engaged in all manner of nefarious scheming schemery for about 200 years before falling into civil war.

The religious overtones of ComStar were never entirely convincing, being closely tied to the original idea that much of the advanced technology essential to the premise — faster-than-light travel, fusion power, and robotic "BattleMechs" armed with energy weapons — was no longer really understood, with surviving examples kept running over the centuries through jury-rigging and rote habit. The intent was to lend a medieval chivalric vibe to the game's mecha combat scenarios, which might have worked in books (BATTLETECH spawned dozens of prose novels and short stories), but wasn't really compatible with the conceits or commercial needs of the game, since new weapons, 'Mechs, and rules were what sold supplement books. So, the "LosTech" concept faded out fairly quickly (although BATTLETECH remains unusual in its preoccupation with technological infrastructure — not many sci-fi settings have detailed lists of which factories make a given type of fusion engine!), leaving ComStar's religious trappings feeling a bit out of place, as if your cellphone company started trying to describe your monthly charges as a tithe. (On second thought, let's not give them any ideas …)

#roleplaying games #battletech #mechwarrior #fasa #blaine pardoe #tony szczudlo #was this all needlessly elaborate for a wargame #focused mostly on small-unit mecha battles?#sure! but its fans will tell you that's it's charm #comstar

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thebarnet89 · 7 months

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Battletech mechs from left to right a Black Knight, King Crab and a mercury

#battletech #mini painting #comstar

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matrim-cauthons-hat · 8 months

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These six have been sitting around waiting to be painted for sometime, and i finally got the basing material i wanted, so here they are! a couple of these designs i didnt think too greatly of to being with, but once i started painting them, i found a newfound jow in them, namely the Thug, and Guillotine.

"Hey Clanners, come out a play-ee-ay" - Precentor Luther

ok, so my coms guards are a little sparse on the light and medium mech side, but what group of mine ISNT sparse on light mechs. i just gotta get more light mechs

#battletech #com guards #comstar #my stuff

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kasperl-ruprecht · 10 months

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#WAT #Battletech #Atlas #ComStar #MechWarrior #twitter

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agentshades · 6 months

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Painted up a Victor for Battletech as a Com Guard from Comstar. Your favorite encouragement to pay your space phone bill! Painting white was slightly terrifying but I love how it shows off the weathering when it's done.

#battletech #mini painting #miniatures #comstar

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blackboxfaxes · 8 months

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Battle Report: House Kurita vs Word of Blake, Rematch

For the second campaign turn in a row, Kote Lance came under attack by the Blakists' lead Assault element - a Highlander, an Awesome, and a Crab, all heavily customized. Kote Lance was busy repairing after their last engagement with the Blakists - Raine's Marauder was already active, but Kimiko's Blitzkrieg, Casey's Black Knight, and Heather's Blackjack had to make rolls to emergency start. None of them booted up turn 1, as Raine moved her Marauder up, the other side of the field covered by the Raiden squad usually assigned to Heather.

The Tonbo at the bottom of the image is just set dressing, and the clear acrylic circles are all woods.

>[Reactor online. Weapons online. Sensors online. All systems nominal.] Heather's Blitzkrieg was, true to form, the first mech to activate, rolling a 10+ on turn 2, and she immediately set out to punish the Blakists' Crab for pushing forward, loosing a pair of Ultra AC20 shells on it, neither of which connected, but they certainly let the Blakists know she was there. Raine exploited a heavy woods, keeping her covered as she traded PPC blasts with the Blakists' custom Awesome. It also mounted a Gauss rifle, which she had only one answer for...

>Glad you ladies joined the party. Now, let's deal with our uninvited guests. That answer was the Gauss rifle mounted on Heather's Blackjack, as she leapt to the top of her repair facility, relying on the Jumping Jack ability to keep her accurate, she joined Raine in pouring fire down on the Awesome. Casey, as always, ran her Black Knight out of her mech bay on MASC, screaming the Coordinator's name, daikatana held high.

>Hey, Kimiko, how's your uppercut? With the enemy Crab having moved to the very cliff's edge, and wanting to avoid taking fire from the Awesome and Highlander, Heather saw an opportunity, and ran directly under the Crab, blocked from the other two mechs by the cliff's edge, and fired a pair of shells straight up into the Crab's forward-protruding fuselage. One shell connected, shredding the armor on the Crab's left torso and staggering it, while Heather, Casey, and Raine focused the Awesome.

>I'm gonna getcha Combined fire from those three mechs knocked the Awesome flat as it reached the cliff. The Crab retreated, and Kimiko, seeing herself threatened, pumped the breaks and streaked halfway across the field, aiming to flank around the Blakist formation. The Raiden squad, almost forgotten, saw a golden opportunity, and jumped for the Awesome.

>Alright, let's do this The Battle Armor weren't the only ones to see an opportunity. As the Awesome lurched to its feet, Casey's mech kicked its MASC in, for once not failing the roll, and reached point blank with the Awesome. The only problem with this idea was that it left her in full view of every enemy mech, and all of them focused fire on her exclusively. This put enough firepower into her to knock her flat, costing her her chance to use her hatchet, and getting the Awesome to stomp on her arm for good measure.

>Think we can handle this on our own? Kimiko's Blitzkrieg steamed and buttered the Crab with a second AC20 shot in the left torso, disabling its XL engine and leaving her open to move on the enemy Highlander. Meanwhile, Casey got up, and once again took all the fire from the Blakists, and then fell over AGAIN despite her piloting skill of 3. This time, however, the Blakist Awesome also fell. Now it was the Battle Armor's time to shine, and they jumped on their victim, going for the swarm.

>[deranged screaming that suddenly cuts off] Casey, having failed to connect with a melee attack and lost ninety percent of her armor, decided discretion was the better part of valor. The Blakist Highlander, under attack by a Blitzkrieg, contemptuously swatted it away with a gauss rifle and a PPC shot to the same torso section, taking it from untouched to disabled in two shots. The Awesome, however, tried to stand up. Perhaps struggling because of the battle armor clinging to it, it rolled a 3 when it needed a 4, fell on its arm, critted its arm, detonated the gauss rifle mounted there and electrocuted the pilot, who blacked out. The Raiden squad were of course delighted, and moved in for the kill. At this point, the Blakists conceded. While I was down to essentially one untouched and two half combat-effective mechs, he was down to one, and called it early rather than lose his Awesome. Each of us salvaged our own mechs and rescued our own pilots, leading to no lasting material changes to either side.

#battletech #mechwarrior #battletech battle report #battle report #miniature wargaming #house kurita #word of blake #comstar #tabletop wargames #tabletop wargamging #tabletop miniatures #miniatures

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baldy-wan-kenobi · 1 month

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Okay. Having gotten a crash course in Battletech, here is my four main take aways:

1. FUCK STEFAN AMARIS

2. Hail Kerensky, Space Alexander always wins.

3. House Steiner Stays Winning

4. BLACK WATCH RULES, BLACK WATCH NUMBER ONE

5. Pay your damn phone bill, or else.

#battletech #house steiner #comstar #Fuck Stefan Amaris

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mortallyminiaturewerewolf · 9 months

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Battlemechs!

I recently finished my third battletech mini so now is as good a time as any to post them. The first two are from one of the beginner boxes. I didn't really have a faction in mind at when painting them so I did a realistic forest camo pattern on the Vindicator (left) and a blizzardy effect on the Griffin (centre). Lastly on the right we have a Wraith from the Alphastrike box that I decided to give an incredibly weathered Comstar paint job. This was so I could use it in eras after Comstar were disarmed as some salvage that hadn't be repainted yet.

I'm not planning on making a Comstar Lance this was just me messing around. I have a feeling I'll end up either painting Clan Jade Falcon (for cartoon inspired paint jobs) or Clan Wolf (The Timberwolf on the cover of Mech Warrior 2 looked so cool to me as a kid, even if now its arms look like bendy straws).

#battletech #mini painting #miniature painting #mecha #comstar #alpha strike #wargaming #mechwarrior #mechs #minatures #alphastrike

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doolallymagpie · 1 year

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Formicapunk Urbie ready to give those with overdue phone bills the ol’ “twenty seconds to comply”

#battletech #comstar #urbanmech

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eswynn · 1 year

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So there you are, sitting back in your plastic lawn chair on some backwater periphery world, enjoying a beer, when these guys show up. They start talking about the HPG network, the communications relays that link the stars together, and they start going on about some guy named Jerome Blake. Then they get to the good part- Apparently, your phone bill is due, and these guys are here to collect. Don't worry, they say, they offer local plans (demolisher tanks) and long distance plans (artillery.) What's your next move? This was my big project for this last week. I'm in the process of building a full Level III (Battalion) as an interchangeably ComStar / Word of Blake force. In total, It'll probably end up being more like a pair of Level IIIs, with everything I've got planned, but I don't think I have it in me to go for a full Level IV (Division.) Celestials, LAMs and a full Level II composed entirely of Toyamas are on the painting bench waiting to be activated in the name of The Master. This Level III is led by Demi-Precentor Vala Vanagand, a shadowy figure cloaked in mystery, but most of the local operations for this unit are coordinated by Adept Julius Vespasian from the cockpit of his Black Knight in the Level II that is primarily built for brawling / assault roles. Both Vespasian and Vanagand are suspected of being members of the Word of Blake, but they won't be outed for it until the Jihad. Supporting the Brawling Level II are a mixed arms scout / artillery Level II which mixes fast units with Arrow IV carrying mechs. Armor assets are grouped into two demi-company units, one being composed entirely of classic Demolisher Tanks while the other is composed entirely of Demolishers that have been upgraded with three turret-mounted, 30-point racks of Medium Range Missiles. The MRM variant is canon, but I couldn't find a model for it anywhere, so I actually created the missile turret in CAD just so I could have these guys in my Level III. #3dprinting #3dp #3dprinted #paintedminiatures #wargaming #tabletopgames #boardgamesofinstagram #boardgames #scifi #sciencefiction #battletech #robotech #mecha #weaseltech #epicscale #6mmminis #mechwarrior #comstar #wordofblake https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-T1e5ywor/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=