I’ve continued working on the MegaMek file parser that I mentioned a couple months ago, and over the weekend I got to the point where it could handle every valid mech file from MegaMek! That means that the tool I wrote is generating summaries for 3,755 mech variants and handling almost every piece of technology […]
In a recent game, I used the Clan Invasion version of the Trebuchet and was a bit disappointed with the design. It is a solid improvement over the Succession Wars variants that I’ve used more often, but the tonnage devoted to the Narc beacon and its ammo felt like a waste in the game. As […]
In 3057, the Free Worlds League and Capellan Confederation launched Operation GUERRERO to take back the worlds both nations had lost to the Federated Commonwealth during the Fourth Succession War. Katherine Steiner-Davion aided their efforts by declaring the Lyran portion of the Federated Commonwealth to be independent and ordering the forces of the newly formed […]
I got in another lance-on-lance solo game of BattleTech over the weekend. This time I played a battle between the Draconis Combine and the Federated Suns during the Fourth Succession War. The Forces Federated Suns – Davion Brigade of Guards Captain Avelina Martel (4/4), BattleMaster BLR-1D Tex (3/5), JagerMech JM6-S Andri (4/5), Dervish DV-6M Juliana […]
Over the weekend, I played a lance-on-lance game of BattleTech. I used some of the miniatures I had painted from my old Introductory Box Set to play out a battle on the border of the Lyran Commonwealth and the Draconis Combine sometime during or around the 4th Succession War. The Forces Draconis Combine – Sword […]
About a decade ago, I started writing my own mech editor for BattleTech as a side project. At the time, I was working on Silverlight, so I wrote it as a Silverlight out-of-browser app. I finished enough that it could handle all of the BattleMechs in Technical Readouts 3025, 3050, 3055, 3058, and 3060, but […]
