A Gundam Particle cannon is the comparable damage to a capital ship weapon, and vaporizes all the armor it touches, taking out entire mechs in a single shot, absolutely coring them completely. You could also put plexiglas or lexan over the top for additional $. Hex sides were printed with various colors to show the changes in terrain features and elevations that could affect the use of certain abilities and equipment. A bunch of plastic, hexagonal terrain that you can build in different ways for every battle. 3. add battletech.exe process to exclusion list for windows defender. While compatible with BattleTech map topology, the hexes on the Centurion map are printed slightly larger so that the mapsheets from the two games do not align. To me, if they're close it's good enough. As a result they are depicted as being something like twice as big today as they were originally. I love this infographic. Beyond the boxed sets and dedicated map packs, some other individual products include boardgame mapsheets with hexes. Although the MechWarrior: Dark Age clix game was designed as a miniatures game forgoing gaming maps in favor of miniature terrain, WizKids produced a number of mapsheets with the usual hex grid for various Solaris VII arenas. I still wake up screaming when I think about the infamous warlord. Create maps that suit your needs. The Blood Spirits were the first Clan to begin a full-blown training program. Mech minis are of kinda inconsistent scale anyways. Overview. Two additional weapons or pieces of equipment can be mounted on the torso, though their combined weight cannot exceed two tons, and each arm can mount one weapon no greater than a half-ton in weight. Although a number of "official" mapsheets exist for BattleTech, players are by no means required to use these. Certainly if you took all the art, even just out of '39 or '25, and stacked them all so that they're all around same head height, I would believe it. [1] [4] Other "volunteers" were obtained by a Trial of Possession with Clan Jade Falcon, where the Jaguars won and adopted several solahma aerospace pilots. Every time I see it I see something I've never seen before! A high-quality neoprene map set (34"x 22" Inches) featuring different terrain, including biomes including Desert, Luna, Alpine, Savanna and Tundra. Even more so when the subject is infantry carriers. Smoke Jaguar scientists found that if something wasn't done soon, their Clan worlds would soon be stripped of the ores needed for BattleMech production. *shrug* I never took mini's scale that seriously. Classic BattleTech (board game)map Original 1984 Battledroidsmap The standard mapsheet layout has remained unchanged from the original Battledroidsedition through to the latest editions, though there have been cosmetic changes. This page was last edited on 4 February 2023, at 22:56. It should have had. We want to get our hands on battle maps that are bigger and better quality than the Battletech maps. BattleTech - The Board Game of Armored Combat. Also benefits from 3d terrain on top/books under. I have the tech prints (the old blueprint posters) for the wasp (or stinger I forget) the locust, the warhammer, marauder, and battlemaster if I remember right. I'd stick to neoprene maps. and our A high-quality neoprene map set focused on aerospace, with one double-sized, 36 x 22", double-sided BattleMat. up until the first edition of Map Set 2) the BattleTech maps were printed on thick cardboard similar to the maps included with the BattleTech 2nd Edition and CityTech boxed sets.Starting with the second edition of Map Set 2 (1991) and the BattleTech, Third Edition (1992) boxed set, maps were printed on thinner paper. All the official TT sources stay within the same general size ranges that has always been the same. Some, like the Siren, use their high speed for recon work. Your friendly neighborhood Periphery pirate! Sets with other playing maps were later produced as game supplements. the novels describe the height as 10 meters (32.8 feet). As published, BattleTech mapsheets have terrain, including vegetation, hydrologic features and topography marked. 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Random internet musings of a BattleTech writer are not canon. [9], The Inner Sphere, however, showed little to no interest in developing their own ProtoMechs. - Bob Ross. It's top walking speed is 60 odd kph. The physical maps are thick cardboard maps akin to those from the latest boxed sets and Hex Packs, with one of the classic game maps printed on either side. generally, the differences between lights and assualts hasn't been height, it has been width and general bulk.. assualt mechs tend to be chunkier, with thicker body parts, more barrel shaped chest areas, etc. The French gaming magazine Casus Belli, who had ties to the official publisher of the French edition of BattleTech (Jeux Descartes), published a BattleTech map in 1994 that is copyrighted to the magazine, but matches the style found in other BattleTech maps. The official height of a Mech has always been a discussion point, some official products have given different heights for certain Mechs, licenced products (like computer games) have given a plethora of conflicting heights for Mechs, and the official miniatures are so out of scale that it isn't funny. Lyran Commonwealth,6th Donegal Guards-Nightstar. And it looks like they accidentally cut off part of the M-5 Caspar's aft end. The Ishiyama map was intended to be cut in quarters and then randomly arranged each match to reflect the unknown layout of the arena. I try not to think about it to much. Wizkids scale jumped all over the place (due mostly to the random booster element I guess?) Additionally, the Proto's small size makes it harder to hit, and even if it loses an arm or head the unit can remain combat effective. Mechs are tall and bigbut scaleing on the minis are nowhere near exact. [3], However, the problem of finding suitable pilots was harder to overcome. Which in soft sci fi, aka futuristic fantasy is not a problem. I like using cheap poster frames for two and four maps. If I were to give a rough estimate to go by I would say light mechs 8 meters, medium 9, heavy 10, assault 11. Make sure you have at least 40GB free space on the drive you're installing BTA to; the launcher cache takes up roughly 25GB and the mod files themselves are about 15GB. There's a human figure inserted for comparison. 'Let the poetry of darkness be written henceforth!. Nearly every Clan obtained ProtoMech salvage on Huntress, producing them in limited numbers. Other board games in the BattleTech universe have generally used mapsheets that are printed to the same size hex size as the original mapsheet, even though other games have represented different distances per hex: The mapsheets included with BattleForce originally represented 180m per hex[4] compared to the 30m per hex of standard BattleTech. Jump distance is 200 meters , so impr. 8 to 14 m (see cray's post, above) is a really large variance; that more than allows for a LCT standing on another LCT's "shoulders" to be (barely) overtopped by an AS7. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 15:28. Although the battle was ultimately lost, the ProtoMech's debut could not be ignored by the other Clans. The BattleForce mapsheet is a double size mapsheet, being exactly twice the width, in hexes, of the standard BattleTech mapsheet, with columns from 01XX to 32XX. A lot of the heights are derived from their Mecha inspirations out of anime. FanPro product #35012, released in 2005. The figures are generally too large to fit into standard sized hexes though. Some are tall and thin, some are short and squat. The hyphen that was sometimes used in older German TRO titles (e.g. Plus the Soviets have long proved that there are ways to pack people tighter into vehicles than the US army does it. In BattleTech, spacegoing WarShips are often classified with the following terms, based on their role. Afterwards, the line reverted to just "BattleTech". It sounds like a lot of 'mechs have very low densities, almost floating in water densities. #1 How does the mechwarrior figs compare in size to the regular Battletech guys ? but was N-scale on average. This page was last edited on 3 December 2022, at 07:42. It's like saying "hey! The models were very clean with no, or minimal flash. As luck would have it, the decision proved fortuitous: Clan aerospace pilots' small bodies allowed them to easily fit inside the cockpit of a ProtoMech, while their brains and circulatory systems, bred to withstand high-G maneuvering, could better endure the negative side effects associated with the EI system. while lights usually are more spindly and thin. You get entire self sustaining colonies worth of people living in the massive ships, entire generations live and die without seeing outside of the ship, people are literally worked to death moving these sky scraper ordinance shells around and chucked into a food processor after a battle. The printed size of a standard mapsheet is 22 inches by 18 inches (not 22 by 17 as many rulebooks suggest). Terrain is a big investment in space and money. Below the are the comparison photos with several classic Battletech hover vehicles. If one side has CBT minis and the other has the MWDA figs, it's going to look pretty stupid, but shouldn't affect gameplay. Your enemies might have a few anti-air mechs or vehicles that will easily eliminate fighteres and need to be taken out. You can do anything you want in it. (These vessels fall into the WarShip category for technical reasons, but are not intended to be used as combat vessels. I bought a several yards of various greens, browns, tans, blue, black and grey. Edit - if you are using any of the recent Catalyst campaign books, these maps will be used. Due to their size and tonnage, ProtoMech weapon loadouts are somewhere between that of battle armor and 'Mechs. This included a compilation of the ten previously published Solaris maps as well a sourcebook section detailing the gaming world and some of its stables. German edition published in 1993 as "GeoTech III" (see below). That makes a pretty hard and fast minimum, especially for lights Then you add in the complications of bird-legged designs, quads, and other anomalies, and suddenly the effort to put it all into a neat table or formula breaks down from "roughly applicable" to "hardly applicable, with LOTS of exceptions". Silent Running. You are using an out of date browser. "The rules technically allow all sorts of bad ideas." Count the heat hawk as an axe. Conversely, some Renegade Legion products contain mapsheets that were never officially published for BattleTech, but can be used for BattleTech nonetheless. Since this product was not published directly by a BattleTech IP owner or licensee, its status as an official product is arguable. I used the blue for cutting out lakes, ponds and rivers, greens for light/heavy trees, black/gray for buildings, roads and city base layer. BattleTroops was one notable departure from this printing convention, instead using a layout of points in a triangular (or arguably hexagonal) pattern rather than a hex-grid. It keep them from shifting around too much and provides some protection. WH40K - Imperim of Man: - Space Marine Terminator Armour (Exosuit) - Imperial Knight (light Mech) - Warhound Titan (medium Mech) - Reaver Titan (heavy Mech) - Warlord Titan (assault Mech) - Imperator Titan (super-heavy Mech) Image details. I or the old me. made a map pack. In addition, punch-out map pieces of various sizes are included to modify the maps as well as a booklet with scenarios and rules expansions for the basic game from Tactical Operations. [3]Total Warfare provides rules how maps may (or may not) be placed to form bigger playing fields, and provides that in the absence of actual mapsheets (e.g. Btech scale jumps around less but tries to stay around 1:285 if it can. The zaku is a jumping heavy in battletech with a hand mounted autocannon. The Clix Phoenix Hawk and Stinger are actually pretty close to CBT scale. So I guess the answer is 1:285 (6mm) is "considered" default but the other two are likely to work. The first HexPack (occasionally also spelled as two words: "Hex Pack") was released in 2010 and heralded a new style for maps, which were now printed on thick, double-sided gameboard-style cardboard with vinyl covering, with different maps printed on the two sides. BattleTech MegaMat Display at Gen Con 2021. Press J to jump to the feed. In 1993 an expansion to the aforementioned boxed set was published as the sourcebook titled Solaris: The Reaches. I can't see a 35 tonner being as tall, or as bulky, as a 75 tonner, which Battletech has several times tried to pass ideas akin to this one. Similar to how Victor managed to behead the Jaguar Khan. So youre free to refer to the general size comparison chart from TRO3039, use any of the video-game based charts available or make up a scale that you feel is sensible on your own. [1] Because of the somewhat diffuse criteria associated with each class and role, the classification is arbitrary and . The casting is excellent. If both players are using them, it should work just fine. Kartenset 1: BattleForce & Scattered Woods, Kartenset 2: Desert Hills & Rolling Hills 1, Kartenset 5: Open Terrain 2 & CityTech Map, Kartenset 6: River Valley & Rolling Hills 2. Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war. Thanks. and printing them via Inked Gaming on a neoprene map (neoprene maps are totally worth it). Books underneath can add some terrain variation. Captain; The known Clans to have used them are these: A ProtoMech phenotype was developed from the aerospace fighter phenotype by Clan Blood Spirit and Clan Cloud Cobra.[25][26][27]. The maps retained their English names, but the markings on the maps are in German. The cheap option is going to a local fabric store and get some felt. Additionally, though the highly-advanced heat sinks used by ProtoMechs means they never build up heat from firing their weapons or moving, they are more adversely affected by extreme temperatures, including fire and Inferno ammunition, than 'Mechs. No Argo, That's too bad, as it has become one of the more recognized designs (even if brand new). This, combined with their smaller engines, would allow the Smoke Jaguars to make many more of these for less material. Someone must've put a ton of time into this with how many ships are represented on here. The average 'mech height, according to the Battletech fluff, is 10 meters. There are fifteen columns, 01XX through 15XX, and there are nominally 17 rows, XX01 through XX17. While a couple MWDA 'mechs are small enough to look good alongside IWM stuff, I've found a surprising number of conventional vehicles that work. His outrage at having been uninformed about the secret project was tempered by his Clan's dire needs and the good performance of the ProtoMechs against desperate odds. For more information, please see our However, this will give you just one (albeit large) map. Attempts made to breed a new kind of warrior for the ProtoMech ended in failure, leaving the scientists no choice but to use volunteer Aerospace pilots who had failed to test into the Warrior Caste. The only known combat deployment of these hybrid ProtoMechs was during the Blakist strike against the Capellan Confederation world of Necromo in late 3071 and it is not known if they were the first of their kind or a technological dead end. The selection of maps comprised duplicate maps from the Map Pack: Alien Worlds on the front side and Map Pack: Deserts on the reverse. ~Orin J. According to Strategic Operations, page 10, WarShip classes are roughly defined as follows: Other subclasses or designations exist, such as "troop cruiser" or "pursuit cruiser", though they can usually be placed in one of the above classes. You Need Space To Shine So what does a cannon need to lob a round as far as it can? The thing that binds most official direct sources of height is that almost all of them are pretty old. If you're using Map Sheets, I remember a rule of 2 mechs per sheet. As this is the heavy tank it fits in well with the larger BT scale. A map set focused on the desert biome, with six 17 x 22", double-sided paper maps. well, darn. Independence Day. Everywhere you look there is something new! This box contains two all-new mapsheets in the new thick cardboard style of the HexPacks and Kartensets that were designed specifically for this product, labeled "Mine" and "Country Side 3": Map Pack Worldwide Event 2018 Terrain Set, And Hell Followed With Him Worldwide Event 2020, Your BattleTech News Roundup For January, 2023, Your BattleTech News Roundup For December, 2022, Experimental Technical Readout: Royal Fantasy, Catalyst Game Labs Link - Grasslands BattleMat, https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mapsheet&oldid=932302. At the same time, Smoke Jaguar geneticists began the task of creating a suitable breed of pilot. "There's a difference between the soldier and his fight. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Yes, a Battletech PPC can vaporize 0.66 tons of armor. ), Your BattleTech News Roundup For January, 2023, Your BattleTech News Roundup For December, 2022, https://www.sarna.net/wiki/index.php?title=WarShip_classification&oldid=937185. With their fusion engines, they can move considerably faster than battle armor but are more compact than BattleMechs. Additionally there is an unaddressed half hex column on the sides of the mapsheet that make up a "sixteenth column" when multiple mapsheets are tiled. [1], This basic mapsheet, two of which are included in each boxed set, is a standardized size and has an addressing scheme printed on the map in a staggered row and column format. Martial Successor Nadesico. During the Dark Age the ProtoMech appears to be used exclusively by Clan units. [2] Under AeroTech rules, each hex on the low altitude map corresponds with a mapsheet at the ground level. The EI control system laid the groundwork needed by Smoke Jaguar scientists for controlling the ProtoMech. Others like the Gorgon can provide fire support, though not to the same degree that heavier vehicles can. when just looking at the two together you know it's not true. German edition published in 1997 as "GeoTech IV" (see below). I really wish that were the case. The printed size of a standard mapsheet is 22 inches by 18 inches (not 22 by 17 as many rulebooks suggest). Up until 1988 (i.e. The game can be played on essentially any terrain. During the early experimental stage, the technical limitations preventing the construction of Inner Sphere ProtoMech chassis were sidestepped with the Word utilizing captured Clan models. The Solaris VII: The Game World boxed set, published in 1991, included maps for five arenas (with one arena requiring two sheets), one for each of the major houses. Blood Spirit ProtoMech Hydra with the pilot. So run of 6. German BattleTech licensee Ulisses Spiele published a range of map sets ("BattleTech Kartensets") in 2014, both as a physical product and as PDF downloads. After the Great Refusal and the destruction of the Smoke Jaguars, many Clans launched raids on Huntress in order to acquire the technology for their own purposes. I can't cite a source, but I'm fairly certain 9.5m is way too short for a SHD. Vehicles and dropships are also compared as well. I guess thats what happens when you use nukes for homecoming gifts. Renegade Legion had a hovertank combat system (Centurion) with maps similar in style to regular BattleTech maps, and its Leviathan and Interceptor space combat games had maps similar to AeroTech. So 4v4/5v5 is two maps, 8v8/10v10 is four maps, 12v12/15v15 is six maps, etc. One of the major stumbling blocks was the need for EI in order to control the machine; even if it could be copied, the moral and ethical problems associated with the system would prevent widespread use. You have two different universes with two different design parameters. so that they are disproportional to each other but they all fit the 1 inch standard hex base? Windows Installation. I am sure this is on here somewhere but I am to tired and lazy to look. I was disappointed in Ironwind's official infantry and found this supplier to be superior in quantity, price, scale, and quality: https://www.pfc-cinc.com/solar_empire_marines.html They may become reluctant to leave their machine, and may even start to believe the ProtoMech is their own body.[14]. So 4v4/5v5 is two maps, 8v8/10v10 is four maps, 12v12/15v15 is six maps, etc. In addition, there are a number of monikers that arguably fall between class and role definitions. Its available in a bunch of colors, easy to fold and transport. Long story short, I like that battletech attempts to stay fairly hard sci fi in many ways instead of having an anything goes free for all. Maps included: River Valley, Large Lakes #2 (double-sided). Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Grasslands #2, Grasslands #3, Desert #2 and Desert #3. Five additional hex maps were included. In comparison to others are battletech ships to small? So other ones will look here first. Press J to jump to the feed. For Classic Battletech, I think most "standard" games use Battle Value 2 (BV2). I always justify it with things like ff armor is bulkier than standard, xl engines are bulkier than standard. I dimly recall 12m. With BT maps is you generally use one map per person, per lance/star. You could also put plexiglas or lexan over the top for additional $. Most infantry work pretty well, and their bases are practically the same size as a hex, if you don't feel like rebasing. A high-quality neoprene map set focused on unusual biomes, with four double-sized, 34 x 22", double-sided BattleMats. [12], ProtoMechs mass between two to fifteen metric tons and stand anywhere from four to six meters in height, with the cockpit mounted in the upper chest. Mechs are BIG. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. As such their agility falls somewhere between infantry and 'Mechs: they can move through most buildings with minimal collateral damage and can go from a prone to standing position in seconds. In the wake of the Dig, Defend, or Die 2018 Worldwide Event, a series of related PDF products was released by CGL that included the scenario's Terrain Set of four newly created maps under the "Map Pack" moniker. If we measure the 'standard' man at ~1.8m tall (and the height of the Dropships confirms that approximation) we get heights for the Mechs listed. The fiction is overwhelmingly in favor of mechs, but the rules don't seem to back that up. Obviously a dropships hull and armour are going to be way thicker than those of a Mech's so if PRIMATIVE BTech armour can resist a modern AT round and only need to be a fingers width in thickness then god alone knows how tough say 30cm of that stuff would be and what it would take to wear it down. I keep hearing about it but not dates. Download the BattleTech Advanced 3062 Installer from the link provided above. BATTLETECH. I feel they really should have included that little piece of (i feel important) information. This gave room for the pilot to ride in the torso while still allowing ample space for weapons. Most of these terms have survived since the Age of Sail, and were updated to reflect the realities of space combat. The Irresponsible Captain Tyler. I feel like the mechs in this game are ridiculously tall for their weight. Here's what the Catalyst neoprene maps look like, they're double sided. JavaScript is disabled. For example, when the ProtoMech's arm is torn off, the pilot feels a great deal of pain, almost as their own arm had been ripped away. Under standard rules the mapsheet is also referred to as a unit of distance with the range of artillery pieces being originally expressed in terms of the number of mapsheets (or "boards") a given unit could fire. Unlike the bulky Elementals, this new breed would need to be smaller so that they would be able to fit into the cramped confines of a ProtoMech's torso. I love hexes waaay too much to ditch them. That said, I've mostly seen references to 6mm scale in battletech forums and websites selling battletech terrain. Disclaimer: I posted in this topic simple because its the first topic that google search will deliver. Per pg20 Total Warfare, 'Mechs "stand eight to fourteen meters tall". Official height (dimensions) of Mechs and Vehicles? I've had lots of problems with this too. Similarly, the mapsheets in the Solaris VII game represent only 7.5 meters of ground distance, a quarter of the scale of standard BattleTech. FanPro product #35002 was released in 2005. Maps included: Large Mountain #1, Deep Canyon #1 (double-sided). [7], Grassland A BattleMat Foothills #2 Rolling Hills #4, Grassland B BattleMat Forward Base Open Terrain #2, Grassland C BattleMat Rolling Hills #3 Foothills #1, Grassland D BattleMat Open Terrain #3 Streams, Grassland E BattleMat Lakes River CommCenter. Developer: I like the bigger miniatures, it gives more detail. Note: I should really, just reformat, and report the maps to be ready to print by inked. Most of these terms have survived since the Age of Sail, and were updated to reflect the realities of space combat. 1:285 (6mm people size) works great for Battletech, though the Kickstarter appears to be shooting for something slightly bigger now. A HumVee is as heavy and big as a tank!" About 8 to 14 meters, depending on the 'Mech. So now enter the "General Size Comparison Chart" from Technical Readout: 3039 (2009), that's pretty recent. Terrain rules. Image size. The best "official" thing is the size chart you can find in the Technical Readout: 3039. Clan Coyote and Clan Blood Spirit were among the first to adopt the ProtoMech and pursue its development with enthusiasm, the Spirits especially, as they suffered a big lack of resources. 6000-8000 points will allow you to build a decent force. Theyre respectably sized, really. A high-quality neoprene extra-large map set, with one mega-sized, 72 x 48" double-sided BattleMat. Kinda bummed they didn't include the real big ship class from 40k, though. The infantry are comprable in size, but mounted differently. So if you're playing a lance-on-lance game, two mapsheets should be enough, with a third if you want more maneuvering space. A lot of series go big and never really explain it or do anything with it. Knowing that their Khans would not even consider full-scale production of ProtoMechs until they were proven effective in combat, the Smoke Jaguar scientists and geneticists began working on the project in secret, understanding that it could be years before their work could be revealed. I never worry about the cannon of things until that cannon is pointed in my direction. The "Open Terrain #1" map was identical to the "Open Terrain" map previously published in the first Map Set, albeit printed on paper instead of cardboard. I could've sworn there was a "line up" of a mech and several dropships do demonstrate the differences in their sizes, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. Battletech's source material is rather loose with mech size with many of us surely having different opinions on what is "correct." The default size of the game is 'MWO scale' which probably fits with Jordan's soundbite in a recent Paradox stream where he mentioned the Mechs are "30 meters tall." However, with just one quick toggle in a JSON, you can set them to whatever you want! Pretty cunning, don't you think. Answer (1 of 2): Hard to answer. One side depicted part of Imperial City, the other Kado-guchi Valley. Compare that to something like the 16-inch (406 mm) naval guns on most US battleships of the same era, which had a range of over 40 km, and you see just how meaningless a gun's bore size can be. By that time still were produced and used some first-generation ProtoMechs. 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