Battletech MMO Please... (was forum=28)Follow

I desperately wish some company would break Microsofts stranglehold on the liscense for all electronic things Battletech.

I'd love to see a MMO version. Something with Full Mech customization and no FPS aspects, instanced tabletop style strategy combats would be my choice. It always annoyed me that the only electronic Battletech I could get was a FPS.

On the list of overly complicated rules systems, Battletech is second only to that one game that has all those tables for **** dilation and vaginal depth.

You're going to make me google it, aren't you? I don't remember.




FATAL

If you come across a copy of the PDF, I want it specifically for the megalulz contained within.

Edited, Jun 9th 2010 7:28pm by NixNot

B-tech? Overly complicated?

Unless you are using the special case rules like how far fire and smoke spreads from the prevailing winds. But those rules have their own tiny special chapter in the book for "Optional Special Case Rules" which are never used in tournament play.

The entire game usually boils down to 2d6, a set# of movement points per turn, and a chart.

You spend your movement points, roll 2d6 and refer to the chart, You don't even roll damage, it's set by the weapon use. When you take damage you fill in dots on your sheet, like a standardized test. You are familiar with those right, little circles that start out empty and you make them not empty with a pencil. That's about as easy as a tabletop game can get. You should try Chill or The Imagine system if you want an actually difficult to play game.

I was apparently too topical to be on the OOT list.
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Edited, Jun 9th 2010 9:37pm by Elmyrsun

You've never played 1st edition Twilight:2000 have you?

On the plus side, if you ever want to know how many brass casings you can retrieve after a firefight or how many fish you can kill by throwing a fragmentation grenade into a pond, they've got the rules for it.

I had some friends that used to play that. I never sat down for a session but it looked like it had a complexity that made B-Tech look like checkers, lol.




I talked to the guys that revamped the Tabletop version at a con last year and we had a long talk about the possibility of a B-Tech MMO. According to them, Microsoft got the electronic license to make Mechwarrior many years ago and have decided to take an iron fisted approach to their control of the genre. As I understand it, as long as Microsoft owns the license nothing B-tech will ever make it to a non-tebletop market. The setting isn't well known enough for Microsoft to bother developing a game, but they're also ******** who won't let anyone else do it either.

I'm sort of disturbed to know that bugbears are apparently circumcised.

Not being nearly nerdy enough to know what half of this thread is even about, I can say that this statement is a lie.

Know what table top RPG was the awesomess?

************* Hero Quest.

I used to have epic battles with the pieces & my Lego Pirates & Knights. And every once in awhile, a contingent of army men from the future used to show up. Lead, of course, by Rambo.

Rubinsky's Renegades will Break you.

*Fires up his 20Sm Laser Custom Aurora AUR-X9

I like madcats. They look spiffy!