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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #870 on: 21 May 2018, 10:14:15 »
It’s ‘early next week’, we can has previews? ;)

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #871 on: 24 May 2018, 20:04:13 »
Production on the new box sets is underway, and they're crammed full of so much new stuff that it didn't all fit. To tide you over until their release, here are a bunch of the new Mechwarrior Cards and accompanying "standee" 'Mechs for you to try out at your next game!

Download your free preview content here: https://tinyurl.com/BoxSetPreview.

(To be clear: three of these 10 cards--Yuuya Saito, Danny Hubbard, and Kaspar Masaharu--as well as the standees available here will not be included in either box set. The other seven Mechwarrior Cards will be in the BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat boxed set. And remember, both boxes will include high-quality plastic miniatures as well as punch-out cardboard 'Mechs.)

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #872 on: 24 May 2018, 20:13:41 »
Looking good. :)
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #873 on: 24 May 2018, 20:25:42 »
And before a bunch of people point it out: yes, there's a typo on the Yuuya Saito card. Because they were not included in the final box set, they didn't get quite the editing pass (uh, from me, actually) that the others did.

We'll look at correcting and re-uploading the card in the near future.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #874 on: 24 May 2018, 20:26:53 »
Looking goodAwesome. :)

Fixed for you  :thumbsup: ^-^

Great job CGL, it is looking like an "awesome" year for Battletech.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #875 on: 24 May 2018, 20:45:37 »
Thanks for working so hard on this stuff Cubby and crew!
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #876 on: 24 May 2018, 20:46:59 »
Fixed for you  :thumbsup: ^-^

Great job CGL, it is looking like an "awesome" year for Battletech.

I'm still being grumpy until I've got the boxed sets in my hands. ;)
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #877 on: 24 May 2018, 20:53:35 »
Print out the standee pdf from Cubby's link and make some standees, it will make you less grumpy  :thumbsup:
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #878 on: 24 May 2018, 21:33:07 »
I was wondering if that was possible . . . might also be good set ups for getting attention at FLGS & local cons- Print a stand up or two in larger sizes to be eye catching . . . Kind of thinking a Battlemaster or Shadow Hawk will be best for that . . .
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #879 on: 24 May 2018, 21:47:32 »
Hmm, 3 Dracs in that 10 and no Cappies?
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #880 on: 24 May 2018, 22:08:41 »
Am I the only one that's grateful that Danny Hubbard didn't make the cut?

An effective 0 gunner in an assault mech seems like something you should earn rather than something you pull right out of the box.  :D
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #881 on: 24 May 2018, 22:40:58 »
Are sprinting and extreme weapon ranges going to be part of the base rules now?

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #882 on: 24 May 2018, 22:54:45 »
Are sprinting and extreme weapon ranges going to be part of the base rules now?
I would guess no but i do wonder if the new box set rulebook is gonna include optional rules or not, like BMM does?

Funny enough but Sprinting optional rule is present in the BMM but Extreme Range is not.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #883 on: 24 May 2018, 22:55:04 »
the text appears to be rewritten from the PSA descriptions in Campaign Operations and the advanced rules stuff is likely included for completeness. the rulebook for the box set is a pretty slim (48 pages iirc?) so there probably isn't going to be much beyond the basest of base rules

also, when I loaded the PDF of the pilot cards, it loaded all the different layers separately and caught a glimpse of the near-completely covered background

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« Reply #884 on: 25 May 2018, 04:59:16 »
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #885 on: 25 May 2018, 08:37:57 »
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #886 on: 25 May 2018, 09:30:13 »
the text appears to be rewritten from the PSA descriptions in Campaign Operations and the advanced rules stuff is likely included for completeness. the rulebook for the box set is a pretty slim (48 pages iirc?) so there probably isn't going to be much beyond the basest of base rules

Correct.

So, full disclosure, I was one of the two writers who did the MechWarrior Cards. (The other was Geoff "Doc" Swift, a regular BT contributor as well.) And the directive was that the cards should be usable at all levels of the game, to the maximum extent possible. Which makes sense--the last thing you want is someone who just picked up the Beginner Box to not be able to understand and play with absolutely everything in the box.

But that created some challenges in our selection of the SPAs, especially on the cards in the Beginner Box. Something like "Natural Grace" (CO, p. 78) is a great, flavorful ability. But it touches on a lot of rules that aren't in the very first product a new player would pick up. (To say nothing of the amount of text that ability comes with, that needs to be crammed onto a card.)

It took some finagling, and not everything is 100 percent compliant to the rules in one box or the other, but I think we got close.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #887 on: 25 May 2018, 09:39:55 »
I am still wondering at having a effective 0 gunner in a Awesome . . . which for 3025 is one of the more effective assaults.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #888 on: 25 May 2018, 09:53:10 »
I am still wondering at having a effective 0 gunner in a Awesome . . . which for 3025 is one of the more effective assaults.

Yeah lights better keep out of LOS of that thing. if it parks, then 0+range+light movement is still likely to be only on 6s and 7s.  But... the BV2 of an awesome plus that pilot would be horrendous!  1600BV2 base, plus 60% or so for the P/G skils, so about 2100BV2, then the special pilot abilities on top.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #889 on: 25 May 2018, 09:57:52 »
I am still wondering at having a effective 0 gunner in a Awesome . . . which for 3025 is one of the more effective assaults.

As long as the cost of the unit is very high, I don't see a problem with it.

It isn't like you would want the pilot of your heavyweight, long-range sniper to have be a lousy shot. 
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #890 on: 25 May 2018, 10:03:02 »
Well, the pilot is already a elite gunner though piloting is 'veteran' -its within the TW pilot rolls for randomly determining.  Its just with that ability on the card he is now as good or better shot than a lot of named elite characters in BT . . . and that is the only type weapon on that mech.  I guess I just want a veteran vs veteran fight without a nobody uber showing up.  Besides, is such a SPA even paid for in BV?
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #891 on: 25 May 2018, 11:12:09 »
Well, the pilot is already a elite gunner though piloting is 'veteran' -its within the TW pilot rolls for randomly determining.  Its just with that ability on the card he is now as good or better shot than a lot of named elite characters in BT . . . and that is the only type weapon on that mech.  I guess I just want a veteran vs veteran fight without a nobody uber showing up.  Besides, is such a SPA even paid for in BV?

It stands to reason that the ace pilots in the fiction/novels/sourcebooks/etc are not the only ones we know about.

It also stands to reason that, if that Awesome is a family heirloom like the card suggests, he would have a lot of experience using it, to the point where he is intimately familiar with all of its quirks and shortcomings and oddities and operations.  Besides, if I am reading the card correctly, there is nothing that says he MUST be in an Awesome.  It just says that he gets a bonus when firing a PPC.  So, if his Awesome gets shot out from under him, and the only replacement ride he can find is a Jagermech, he is screwed. 
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #892 on: 25 May 2018, 11:31:30 »
Well, the pilot is already a elite gunner though piloting is 'veteran' -its within the TW pilot rolls for randomly determining.  Its just with that ability on the card he is now as good or better shot than a lot of named elite characters in BT . . . and that is the only type weapon on that mech.  I guess I just want a veteran vs veteran fight without a nobody uber showing up.  Besides, is such a SPA even paid for in BV?

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #893 on: 25 May 2018, 12:04:56 »
As long as the cost of the unit is very high, I don't see a problem with it.

It isn't like you would want the pilot of your heavyweight, long-range sniper to have be a lousy shot.

And doesn't the Box come with a Battlemaster?  The pilot for that could be well balanced against it.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #894 on: 25 May 2018, 12:18:04 »
I am still wondering at having a effective 0 gunner in a Awesome . . . which for 3025 is one of the more effective assaults.

I agree, but the first set of cards teased also seemed very strong. If everything is on a similar level, then it may work out OK.

I just hope some of the light 'mech pilots bring something to avoid getting mowed down too quickly.

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #895 on: 25 May 2018, 12:36:22 »
I am looking forward to the new box set for the new style of Miniatures. 


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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #896 on: 26 May 2018, 09:56:13 »
And doesn't the Box come with a Battlemaster?  The pilot for that could be well balanced against it.

By the time the Battlemaster gets close, it (should) be pretty chewed up, but once it’s in that sweet spot the awesome is going to have to start boxing or backing up.

Either way, hot mech-on-mech action :)

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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #897 on: 26 May 2018, 11:49:24 »
Current;y I do not believe that SPAs have a BV cost associated with them. Do remember though that the SPAs are also an optional rule so you don't have to use it.

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« Reply #898 on: 26 May 2018, 12:56:24 »
Highly unfortunate both quirks and SPAs lack proper balancing methods.
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Re: New and Upcoming Releases Volume XII: Baker's Dozen
« Reply #899 on: 26 May 2018, 12:58:55 »
The SPAs will probably balance as a separate budget from BV, since the spoiler card we see gives a cost to the SPAs that pilot possesses.

I get x amount of BV, and you get that same x.

I get y amount of SPAs, and you get that same y.

 

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