GenCon 2019

[00Dawg]

Well, I see what looks like two sides of a old battery powered B&D tool kit I had.

Surprised no one mentioned the new Executioner positioned behind the Tomahawk, a Classic Omni slipped onto the scene.

DeWalt drill case.  Not what I was referring to, unfortunately.
At least one guy has noticed the Classic Executioner. 

[Cubby]

I was hoping for some zoomed in images of the mechs

Sadlerbw had some good ones - I took a few as well, but have not had a chance to post yet.

....y'all, I am DEAD.

[Weirdo]

Brief combat report for the Feature Event on Thursday:

Scenario was the 8th Battle of Hesperus II, DCMS vs LCAF. DCMS was attempting to storm into a Defiance Industries mech factory.

Personal highlight of the game: Winding up shut down, prone, AND unconscious, on a turn that nobody actually shot at me. ;D

[Sartris]

Personal highlight of the game: Winding up shut down, prone, AND unconscious, on a turn that nobody actually shot at me. ;D

This feels like a riddle...

[Weirdo]

If a Marauder keeps having really good numbers against you, don't worry. This is the kind of problemthat solves itself.

Remember, folks: The corollary to No Guts, No Galaxy is No Guts, No Sausage.

[jrvk777]

Hope someone could post a review/unboxing of the AS Card sets... That stock might run out rather quickly, I think... :P

[Weirdo]

I'm rather curious about those myself. Cards by themselves don't interest me hugely, but if there's more than just mech cards, I may change my mind.

[Greatclub]

For those going to gencon, the half-price books in greenwood, southern suburb of indianapolis, had on Wednesday 'bout eighteen shelf-inches of old battletech novels. By now they’re probably gone, but here’s your heads up if they aren’t. The earliest one was Ideal War, IIRC.

It even had a couple I don't, but given it was the 'capellian solution' I declined to pick them up.

[nckestrel]

I'm rather curious about those myself. Cards by themselves don't interest me hugely, but if there's more than just mech cards, I may change my mind.

There are ten cards that are combat commands (regiments/clusters), basically a tiny Combat Manual entry.  Background fluff, experience rating, unit composition, faction, insignia.  back side is their Special Command Ability choices with circles to mark the ones chosen and a brief description of each.
SW has one for each of the five Great Houses, and five mercenaries.
CI has one for each of the seven Invading Clans, one Rasalhague, one St. Ives, and one Comstar.

[truetanker]

Thank you Charlie Tango to allow me to hold the only OOP mech on that grinder map!

A purple colored, and brand spanking new, freshly painted Archer... yes the new one that isn't even ready for the public yet!

Thanks CT!

TT

[Sartris]

[sadlerbw]

As the kids say, oof! Went to the What’s Up event. Was in the Crown Plaza dungeon again, which I think screwed with the live stream. Got to meet Cubby, and thanked him for the work he is doing talking to us goofballs!

Trying to get the video up to YouTube, but the internet and my old iPhone are fighting me! I know other folks were recording as well, so maybe someone else will beat me to it. I did take some notes though, and here are a couple interesting tidbits from the event:

- ilClan got pushed back by Shadowrun and the Kickstarter, but is getting more attention now. Probably won’t make 2019, but 2020 for sure.
- they really don’t know how they are going to deal with the massive number of names and pictures from the Kickstarter yet, but have been talking with the authors. Randall apparently sent a bunch of pictures of strange men to Blaine Pardoe recently!
- Brent DOES want to redesign the quads, but they don’t fit well on the hex bases so they haven’t been done yet. The Goliath and Scorpion probably will get re-works at some point.
- a plush Urbie as a stretch goal in the KS is not out of the question...and was heartily supported by the fans in attendance.
- MechWarrior: Destiny is pretty far along. Loren estimated 3/4 of the way to being on shelves.
- Brent is planning more re-organized TRO’s past the two we have now.
- fiction, not just BT fiction, is selling well.
- bonfire of Worlds will get a POD release.
- more audiobooks are coming, but I forget any specifics.
- Jason Hardy LOVES snickerdoodles!

Separately, Leviathans is coming back! 2020 Kickstarter, but they have reactivated the monsters in the sky website and will be blogging there. Randall said they are also looking for some play testers for the new factions, and I think you can contact CGL about that through said website.

There was other Shadowrun and Dragonfire stuff as well, but I didn’t take very good notes on it!

EDIT: fixed some of my sleep deprived mistakes that others pointed out, and remembered about the Snickerdoodles.

[Sartris]

As the kids say, oof! Went to the What’s Up event. Was in the Crown Plaza dungeon again, which I think screwed with the live stream. Got to meet Cubby, and thanked him for the work he is doing talking to us goofballs!

Trying to get the video up to YouTube, but the internet and my old iPhone are fighting me! I know other folks were recording as well, so maybe someone else will beat me to it. I did take some notes though, and here are a couple interesting tidbits from the event:

many thanks

- ilClan got pushed back by Shadowrun and the Kickstarter, but is getting more attention now. Probably won’t make 2019 thanks to Chinese holiday schedule, but 2020 for sure.

was expecting 2020 so that's fine

- they really don’t know how they are going to deal with the massive number of names and pictures from the Kickstarter yet, but have been talking with the authors. Randall apparently sent a bunch of pictures of strange men to Blaine Pardoe recently!

good news, authors, you don't have to come up with any new character names for 30 years!

- a plush Urbie as a stretch goal in the KS is not out of the question...and was heartily supported by the fans in attendance.

mememachine iic

- MechWarrior: Destiny is pretty far along. Loren estimated 3/4 of the way to being on shelves.
- fiction, not just BT fiction, is selling well.

nice.

- Brent is planning more re-organized TRO’s past the two we have now.

interesting

- embers of flame will get a POD release.

Bonfire of Worlds?

[sadlerbw]

I think more POD is coming in general, but right now they are pretty heavy into getting all the writers moving on new fiction, and John Helfers apparently needs to sleep once in a while, so no firm dates on when it will happen yet.

Also, I’m pretty sure I made up a name for a book that doesn’t exist. I think it’s funny though, so I’m going to leave it and you can figure out what they really said (rather than what I hurriedly wrote down) when YouTube finishes munching on the video!

[Valkerie]

Just got my PODs of Forever Faithful and Kell Hounds Ascendant today.  They are quite nice. :thumbsup:

sadlerbw, any word on if that con exclusive battle mat of theirs is ever going to be on the CGL store?

[Adrian Gideon]

Watched the video. Some clarification:

- ilClan got pushed back by Shadowrun and the Kickstarter, but is getting more attention now. Probably won’t make 2019 thanks to Chinese holiday schedule, but 2020 for sure.

It got pushed back because the storyline needs to work, and that can’t be rushed. Chinese holiday doesn’t remotely come into the picture. It’s not a production bottleneck.

- Brent DOES want to redesign the quads,

::) Sure. That SLAYS me.

[trboturtle]

Watched the video. Some clarification: It got pushed back because the storyline needs to work, and that can’t be rushed. Chinese holiday doesn’t remotely come into the picture. It’s not a production bottleneck.
 ::) Sure. That SLAYS me.

3-legged 'Mechs? :)

Craig

[dgorsman]

Did anyone else just blank out after the line "... plush Urbie..."?   :smitten:

[DarkISI]

Did anyone else just blank out after the line "... plush Urbie..."?   :smitten:

I just started thinking about how I can get the wife to agree to my daughters snuggling with a BattleMech :D

[pheonixstorm]

If it happens I hope my kids wont try fighting me for it.  Urbie plushie FTW!

[H.B.M.C.]

It got pushed back because the storyline needs to work, and that can’t be rushed.

Well we know the Clans win, so...

;)

BYE

[Lorcan Nagle]

- embers of flame will get a POD release.

Bonfire of Worlds?

I'm guessing it's Embers of War, which got a traditional print run prior to the PoD inititive (and yes, technically it had two print runs on account of the pre-retail release at Gencon like four years ago).  Though there was an ad for Bonfire of Worlds in the back of one of the BattleCorps stories from the Kickstarter digital rewards, so presumably it's also getting a PoD release.

[mbear]

Wolves over Titan eh? Think that answers whose fleet it was at the end of Shattered Fortress (as if there was any doubt).

Also what's with the Millenium Falcon's, the picture is really messing with my brain.

Obviously on the latest Kessel Run it made .5 past light speed, went plaid, then broke into another universe before crashing.

I just started thinking about how I can get the wife to agree to my daughters snuggling with a BattleMech :D

"It'll fight off nightmares! Really! What imaginary monster can stand up to an AC/10?"

[hoosierhick]

DeWalt drill case.  Not what I was referring to, unfortunately.
At least one guy has noticed the Classic Executioner.

Looks like there's the nose with the ball turret and gun from a Cobra FANG helicopter in there.

[Lorcan Nagle]

A lot of the greeblies are from the Hexagon building sets that have been released by a bunch of different game companies as terrain in the past.  They've shown up in other BT model photos, notably in Total Warfare.

[Sartris]

I'm guessing it's Embers of War, which got a traditional print run prior to the PoD inititive (and yes, technically it had two print runs on account of the pre-retail release at Gencon like four years ago).  Though there was an ad for Bonfire of Worlds in the back of one of the BattleCorps stories from the Kickstarter digital rewards, so presumably it's also getting a PoD release.

That checks out. Besides the bc anthologies 1-5, embers is war is the lone non-pod offering. But... bonfire too? Pretty please?

Well we know the Clans win, so...

;)

BYE

I mean if I didn’t know and you told me in 1700 at the height of Louis XIV’s power that Napoleon would have an even bigger empire in 1812, I’d still want the details

[00Dawg]

Looks like there's the nose with the ball turret and gun from a Cobra FANG helicopter in there.

Nice catch.  There are other parts from it as well. 

[sadlerbw]

Got the video up. Now you can all see for yourselves and correct whatever I said that was wrong!

https://youtu.be/GXKGhOeuZFY

[speck]

Just a FYI to those at the show. We got some restocks in on clear exterminator and leviathan so the limited per purchase has been removed. Factory did a great job getting more done for the show last two days.

[00Dawg]

A lot of the greeblies are from the Hexagon building sets that have been released by a bunch of different game companies as terrain in the past.  They've shown up in other BT model photos, notably in Total Warfare.

Another good catch!  That suggestion actually came from Dave Fanjoy, who has used them for photos in the past.  We were running out of budget and out of parts on hand, and that solution helped us get to the finish line in time.