BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat
About BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat
In this introduction to the BattleTech game and universe, players each take control of one or more giant walking war machines (BattleMechs, aka 'Mechs) and battle until their opponent is destroyed or ...Read More
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Great update to the Classic rules. Well organized, easy to use book as well.
Just wish it had more 'mechs. Or all of them. More 'mechs!!!
THE game, easy and fair quick but still n°1 in robot combat genre.
Slow, archaic rules. Game is very random. Only way to mitigate the randomness is to play with more units, but playing with more units makes the game unbearably long.
Also the game is designed to be played 4 vs 4 but the lore doesn't support it. The battles in a game should at least reflect the story the world is trying to tell, should it not? But Lance-level engagements are the exception in Battletech, not the norm.
The basics is fairly graspable however its numerous rules, complexities, and rule exceptions makes this a pain to fully comprehend in a single setting. When digested however, there is crunch and tactical decisions to be had left and right. What really ticks me off is how much reference checking is needed throughout the game which slows down its pacing tremendously
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I tried to like this game like four times since the 1990s. At first BT seemed deep to me, but now I'm thinking it's just bloated beyond redemption. The current rules are an amalgam of three decades of random design choices, packed into volumes of oddly indexed if nicely colored rulebooks. And the rules haven't aged well. The simplest of situations are solved by bizarrely complicated mechanics, which often don't even make sense. You will end up doing a lot of process: referencing tables, rolling dice, checking tables, rolling more dice, and then more tables, just to effect some minor modifiers because you hit a hand actuator. What this leads to is that on a small scale the game is a boring slugfest where you miss all the time until someone scores a lucky crit. Larger games do get interesting, but they take AGES to get to a resolution. The new models are nice, but I don't think they're worth the huge time investment.
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