Hello everyone, sorry for the delay for the M3 update. Been travelling quite a bit for work, and with us wanting to go to a campaign style for a bit, wanted to work a few things before I sent this out.
First off date - Saturday October 26th, 10am will be the date for October. Will play tabletop from 10-2/3pm ish, then Battletech Pods will be open as well as gaming tables for anything anyone else wants to play.
Plan for the game/campaign - last month we as a group decided we want to start getting back into more of a campaign game, and through our discussion we landed on each person will pick a couple of units and as a whole this will make our Merc Unit, ( still to be named ) and we would start our timeline about 3040/ish so post 4th succession wars, post brush wars, post war of 3039. But still prior to Clan Invasion. The goal here is we can ramp up for the Clan Invasion kickstarter till it comes out, and then decide to advance our timeline when it releases to roll with the excitement there.I want to stress that this will be a fun and casual campaign. I dont want it to be or feel like it is "hardcore". I want to have enough strategic and tactical detail, but focus on fun for the group.When we meet this month we can hammer out some of high level details such as name, unit history, etc...I will be trying to tie this in with the free from Catalyst, the Succession Wars Chaos Campaign.So using the Chaos Campaign system for how we gain and spend money, handle repairs, etc...It is a easier system to manage as goal here is to not get completely mired down in the individual C-bill spending and tracking.What I need from anyone looking to join in ( and do not need to be there each month or right from get go, feel free to jump in late, focus is on building the group and enhancing the community ) is for everyone to choose 2x units ( Mech/Tank/fighter/?, and unit means = 1, so if mechs 2x mechs, or can be mech and a tank or any combo ). Then pick pilot names, and come up with some colorful history for "FLAVOR"!The thing to remember here is we will need tactical flexibility as there will be many different types of missions which not all units are great for.** For example, and Urbanmech while fun and flavorful, is not a practical daily driver LOL. But if you choose it, so be it!These units can be anything pre 3040, so anything from Tech Readouts such as 2750, 3025, 3026, 3039, even most the units in the new Tech Readout Succession Wars ( as some will be a no due to the fact Catalyst slipped 3050 and 3075 stuff in there :) ).If any questions on if unit or the variant you choose is Pre 3040 ish friendly, send it to me, or check Sarna or the MUL for when it was available.The general flavor you should work with when choosing is that we are all separate teams that are at least 10+ year veterans of the Succession/Brush/3039 wars and middle actions in there, that have come together to form a new unit. So you should choose units and flavor that fits your passion and play style. I will adapt campaign and scenarios to accommodate.Again just shoot me any questions on choices you are looking to make.Your pilots available one will be 3/4 and one will be a 4/4. That 3 can be pilot or gunnery again fit it to your style and choices.
QUIRKS - Then to add to the fun an flavor we are allowing units to have the new "QUIRKS" that started in Strat Ops book, but are in the new Battletech Manual. What I am allowing is up to 2x positive quirks per unit, but no more than 5x points total. And what ever you spend in Positive quirks you must then spend equal points or greater in negative quirks.* for example to fit the flavor of an Awesome 8Q, I would make one of my choices the Battle Fist, which fits with its left arm, and is also a positive design quirk.So read up on your choices and feel free to be creative. This is in then end something new we are trying and want to see how it goes, so we will adjust and tune as we go too.
PLAN IS NOT PLAN LOL
So what I mean here is pick your units, pick your pilots, pick your good and bad quirks, and show up Saturday October 26th, and lets have some fun. We will hash out stuff as we go, and learn from our mistakes.And we can take this any direction that the group agrees as a whole on from there.Goal is to have fun and blow shit up! And hopefully not get blown up in the process.And Lord willing we will all be back for SpaceBalls 2, the search for more money!
Let me know questions concerns, etc........