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[The Wayfarer]

Hi All,

If your at GenCon post here!

Wanted to put up a few pics for you from GenCon.  Will try to follow up with updates and stuff later.

New Kurita Lane pack.  I think I have some photos further on from the IWM booth.



Here they are:




I wasn't planning on buying the pins.  They weren't cheap.  An impulse buy but they look good.  I didn't see any dice.




New lance packs.  Gotta say, I just got the new Intro Box Set from Amazon the other day and the plastic minis look so good.  These look just as good.








My haul from IWM and packaging.




The Scapha tanks look great but they are kind of on the large side.  I generally don't mind the beefier mini for battletech but these have a large foot print.  A 40 tonner right?



Gotta run.  I apologize for the size of the pics.  Time is tight.  Mods, feel free to resize if you need to.

First day of the con is kind of crazy.  Have a Battletech event at 2 so can't stay on long.

The Catalyst booth was doing well.  Shadowrun Crossfire was selling like hotcakes.  I got in line early.  One of the first 50 I would say.  The line and booth was much improved from last year.  Open and allowed for better movement.  Staff was helpful.  IWM guys were great.  And man, the quality of the new minis, the entire IWM 3145 line just look amazing!  Keep up the good work.

More later as time allows.

Will try to make the What's up tomorrow.

Mike

[Pa Weasley]

Thanks for the pics and the update

[YingJanshi]

Those pins look awesome!
(Too bad us non con-goers will never see them...)

[Sharpnel]

Those pins look awesome!
(Too bad us non con-goers will never see them...)

Except on e-Pay for 2-3 times the actual retail

[Heavyguard]

Is that 3145 era report cover a mouse pad?

[Foxx Ital]

Looks awesome! thanks for the update  :) the Mini quality really is pretty good. Hopefully next time i'm up in Portland theres some to buy  ;D

[Weirdo]

All I have to say about all of this is

[Klat]

I need a ninja...

Thanks for the update and pics

[wolfspider]

Great Report!  O0

[wolfspider]

So is the pattern for the fire lance the new wolfs dragoon Tarantulas color scheme?

[Cubby]

As recently as Tuesday night, I was trying to find a last-minute co-pilot friend for a cannonball run out there from Md.

After seeing all this...that's it, I gotta go next year. I don't care if there are 50,000 people there or not.

[GunjiNoKanrei]

So is the pattern for the fire lance the new wolfs dragoon Tarantulas color scheme?

No. It is the classic red/black scheme usually associated with the Dragoons. The Tarantulas have a different scheme.

EDIT: Just checked CSO and we have published the scheme so I can talk about it ...

The Tarantulas paint their machines jet black, adding rust-red, almost orange stripes around knee and elbow joints.

[Mastergunz]

Any chance of a closeup shot on the Suna?

-Gunz

[wolfspider]

No. It is the classic red/black scheme usually associated with the Dragoons. The Tarantulas have a different scheme.

EDIT: Just checked CSO and we have published the scheme so I can talk about it ...

So we should see some pictures of the scheme soon then? I could not find any in the wolf dragoon section

[GunjiNoKanrei]

So we should see some pictures of the scheme soon then? I could not find any in the wolf dragoon section

The description is in the dragoons section, but we don't have any painted examples up. There are also none in the immediate pipeline, but we will get to them ... eventually ;)

This was the inspiration for the scheme btw: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_redknee_tarantula

[I am Belch II]

Good stuff, I was there and feel like I missed some things.

[Lorcan Nagle]

More. Photos.

[Wrangler]

 :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(  Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaautiful.

Stuff i can't have...*sigh*

[Atlas3060]

Oh Ghu that Guillotine and Flea, so adorable.
I want to adopt lances of them and conquer known star systems!

[Lorcan Nagle]

By the time I'm done with those lance packs, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to field a batallion or two for each Great House just of plastics

[worktroll]

Oh Ghu that Guillotine and Flea, so adorable.
I want to adopt lances of them and conquer known star systems!

I find your idea strangely attractive, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Wrangler]

I love the Stone's Lament painted Ares, that must be sight to be seen on the battlefield.  If Inner Sphere saw THAT coming, the mystery of who heck was behind them would be solved for sure.  ;D

[The Wayfarer]

Any chance of a closeup shot on the Suna?-Gunz

I'll try to get a close up of the painted minis at the IWM booth today.  This may help.



On the way out of the airport were greeted with this.  All around Indie you get the sense that gamers are appreciated.




Small part of the Catalyst booth:



Yes, they did have Battletech mouse pads.  I wanted one but resisted.




I played in two storyline events yesterday.  Here's a shot of the board:




Had a lot of fun.  It's been a while since I played Battletech on a hex board so I as a little rusty.  Been playing a lot of Alpha Strike at home.  Basically, Banson's VS Liao.  You scored points for getting uncrippled units into the opponents deployment zone.  Everybody around the table was great to play with.  The Catalyst staff did great and were on top of the rules.

Gonna try to make the What's up event this morning and will follow up later.  Its sold out so I'm not sure about my chances in getting in.  This event got posted so late I had already signed up for another event in the meantime and already had my tickets in hand when it went up.  I hope next year Catalyst get all the event up before event registration.

More later.

Mike

[SpudBot]

Inspiration for my stack of heroscape stuff (tho I wonder how they distinguished heavy from light woods?).

Those pins - neato keen.  Thanks for posting!

[Chaos Cat]

Inspiration for my stack of heroscape stuff (tho I wonder how they distinguished heavy from light woods?).

Since that hero scape is what I usually play on these days I'll let you in on the secret of woods. There's a dark green hex near top left-middle. That's the heavy wood. Light green is light woods.

[SpudBot]

Ah, thanks, would never have noticed that!  Painting some of my 'swamp' hexes dark green would work.  I did notice the 'cobblestone' hex tiles under the buildings to mark their footprint.

[mechwarriorgarya]

Happy to see Heroscape continues to be used for other games!  ;D Its like the most wonderful game made for other games.  O0

For Heavy vs. light woods I have used two different types of trees to distinguish. Conifer trees for Heavy, deciduous trees for light.
One tree in the corner of the respective hex, works just fine, and looks nice too.

Hold them in place with poster putty, only issue is the putty is white, if I could fine green or brown putty it would be even better.

[NeonKnight]

Since that hero scape is what I usually play on these days I'll let you in on the secret of woods. There's a dark green hex near top left-middle. That's the heavy wood. Light green is light woods.

My Heroscape woods secret....I use the flat swamp tiles and Heavy Woods has a tree on it...Light woods currently does not ;)

Soon it's be type of tree :D

But DAMN It looks good!

[mechwarriorgarya]

Here is a full shot of that board. I did a later board that probably had two or three times as many trees. All together I have probably spent four evenings just making trees. Basically I have a shoe box full of trees now to use for when I do this.

[Dragon41673]

Another batch of mechs has been posted on Camospecs...this time it's the Republic Standing Guard painted by Mastergunz, who made the DA Firestarter look friggin AWESOME!