Painted Mech Cards
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
3025-3039 Light Mechs
First I will provide the blank mech cards (in case players wish to add their own painted mechs or artwork).
The following are mech cards featuring my painted miniatures. I am doing a single card for each mech.
The following are mech cards featuring my painted miniatures. I am doing a single card for each mech.
Elbowtech: An Introduction
I decided to delete and re-arrange all of the previous Elbowtech posts. It was a bit scattered and confused.
And Elbowtech is...?
Elbowtech is a fan-based non-profit project aimed at creating a skirmish tabletop game out of Battletech. It lies somewhere in between classic Battletech and Alpha Strike in complexity/feel.
I didn't enjoy the Alpha Strike games I've seen and watched, and yet I still wanted to run some Battletech games. I also had three starter boxes sitting in the corner collecting dust, and wanted to get some stompy robot fun in before beginning the super lengthy road down to Robotech.
Elbowtech is intended for hexless games on a 4'x4' or larger gaming surface, using between a lance to a company of mechs for a single game. Larger would be possible if the gaming surface was increased and multiple players were covering each side (perhaps as large as a battalion though this might get bogged down in the game...)
Using standard 1/285-1/300 scale mechs, I've converted all of the 3025 original TRO mechs over to Elbowtech cards (provided in the following posts). I've done a couple of versions of the cards so far and settled on the current. As it stands now I've produced cards only for the mechs that I have available, and will later provide blank cards for all of the standard 3025 mechs.
3050 will eventually happen, but not sure when. I will not be moving past 3050, as I have little to no interest in the direction Battletech took as it became way too large and expansive a game...and lost a lot of the feel of the original old-school game.
The game does not use hex-bases though this doesn't hurt if you have them. The rules are in process at the moment and will be shared via dropbox as they develop.
Provided in the next four posts are mech cards for 3025 era mechs.
And Elbowtech is...?
Elbowtech is a fan-based non-profit project aimed at creating a skirmish tabletop game out of Battletech. It lies somewhere in between classic Battletech and Alpha Strike in complexity/feel.
I didn't enjoy the Alpha Strike games I've seen and watched, and yet I still wanted to run some Battletech games. I also had three starter boxes sitting in the corner collecting dust, and wanted to get some stompy robot fun in before beginning the super lengthy road down to Robotech.
Elbowtech is intended for hexless games on a 4'x4' or larger gaming surface, using between a lance to a company of mechs for a single game. Larger would be possible if the gaming surface was increased and multiple players were covering each side (perhaps as large as a battalion though this might get bogged down in the game...)
Using standard 1/285-1/300 scale mechs, I've converted all of the 3025 original TRO mechs over to Elbowtech cards (provided in the following posts). I've done a couple of versions of the cards so far and settled on the current. As it stands now I've produced cards only for the mechs that I have available, and will later provide blank cards for all of the standard 3025 mechs.
3050 will eventually happen, but not sure when. I will not be moving past 3050, as I have little to no interest in the direction Battletech took as it became way too large and expansive a game...and lost a lot of the feel of the original old-school game.
The game does not use hex-bases though this doesn't hurt if you have them. The rules are in process at the moment and will be shared via dropbox as they develop.
Provided in the next four posts are mech cards for 3025 era mechs.
Friday, July 10, 2015
Dusting off the cobwebs...
So, after nine months (changing jobs, moving...and finding I absolutely hate everything about my situation right now!) I managed to calm myself down long enough to put some paint on some figures.
I picked up a couple of Tre Manor's sculpts from Reaper - all in metal. I like Bones but I'm not a huge fan of it on smaller miniatures.
I also grabbed a gorgeous vampyre model I had seen on another thread over on Lead Adventure.
Lo and behold the four figures of last weekend...
Just received a few of Tre Manor's bugbears in the Bones material (hoping they're bulky enough to not drive me mad). I've been wanting to replace some of my less-than-awesome bugbears and these were cheap!
I hope to actually be able to post more regularly now...we'll see!
I picked up a couple of Tre Manor's sculpts from Reaper - all in metal. I like Bones but I'm not a huge fan of it on smaller miniatures.
I also grabbed a gorgeous vampyre model I had seen on another thread over on Lead Adventure.
Lo and behold the four figures of last weekend...
Just received a few of Tre Manor's bugbears in the Bones material (hoping they're bulky enough to not drive me mad). I've been wanting to replace some of my less-than-awesome bugbears and these were cheap!
I hope to actually be able to post more regularly now...we'll see!
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