Posts Tagged “MechWarrior”

An unpainted Mad Cat Mk II. 90 tons of fun!

I used to be a big Battle Tech fan.  Not so big that I’d read the novels or anything (that was reserved for my friend “NightShadow”), but I’d get involved in huge map sheet battles and went absolutely giddy when the MechWarrior games came out for PC.  I’m not joking when I say that I would spend hours in my room (with my mom of all people) painting and detailing my battlemech minatures.  

There was a source book that my friends and I would use that detailed every rule and every stat on the battlefield.  Like many tabletop games, it took forever; each full turn represented 10 seconds of actual battle, but would often take 5 minutes to actually perform.  While my friends and I loved all the strategy and planning that went into a battle, we tired rather quickly of battles that would last for 4 or more hours.