I'll start this fortnight with a confession: I've never read the Black Thorns novels. I'm only really familiar with them from the sourcebook, which I purchased used, and I only really purchased used at the time for the new 'Mechs in the back. I was young and I was inexperienced. (I was never stupid, just hindered with poor judgment.) This was good in a way because, well, I liked the 'Mechs and I have an irrational fondness for the two OmniMechs.
If you've never picked up the sourcebook, it includes three 'Mechs, a rare Star Leagure-era 'Mech fielded by ComStar, the
Shootist, and two Clan OmniMechs, the
Grendel and the
Shadow Cat. All of these would later appear in
Technical Readout: 3058. (How many Clan 'Mechs in that book were original?) I can't really tell you how to use these in a game because I don't get to play often. The
Shootist doesn't appear to have a 'Mech of the Week article but it has an AC/20, so you know what to do. The Clan "Mechs do have articles (
Grendel and
Shadow Cat).
The
Shootist has only had
a single sculpt (20-684).
The
Grendel has two sculpts, one
normal scale (20-677) and one BattleForce-scale (20-9114).
The
Shadow Cat also has two sculpts, one
normal scale (20-991) and one BattleForce-scale (20-9115).
If you have any of these miniatures painted, please share pictures. We'd love to see them!
Thank you for reading and a special thank you to those of you who will post.
Is there a mini you want to see covered in Q2? Place your request in the
scheduling thread! I'll be scheduling that quarter soon!
Our next two fortnights will be:
- Inner Sphere (3/9): Hermes and Hermes II
- Clan (3/23): Fire Falcon and Cougar
