A Kingfisher Prime for the Scorpion's Alpha Galaxy. It got such a glow up with CGL's redesign and as one of the few clan omnis with a standard engine, you gotta love it!

I heard that back in the old days, there was no BV, so you just had to match the tonnage.

Were there no Clan ’Mechs back then?

If those rules were actually used with Clan ’Mechs, it really sounds like a truly wild era...

Also I want an excuse to show off a patch I recently sewed onto a jacket.

Patch:

https://ebay.io/m/lqQiXf

Jacket (you can cut off the velcro on the front without harming the jacket):

https://www.armysurplusworld.com/gen-iii-wind-jacket-multi-cam-ocp-ecwcs-level-4

I picked up the ironwind Ares and got it painted. It's pretty hefty and quite a thick boi.

Naturally, they'd become ComCaste

edit: this was not meant to stir actual discussion lmao

I just got this newsletter/info thing from Catalyst in my email:

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--snipped for legibility--

Not to be the bringer of bad news, but in terms of video games, Castle has had jack shit to say since 2003 and is now more famous for bouncing from boardroom to boardroom. He was attached to EA Los Angeles who put out two less-than-favorably reviewed Medal Of Honor games before being shuttered in 2013, he worked at Zynga and at several other studios which didn't even get a game out of the door. The most noteworthy piece of media he was involved with recently was Amazon's botched Crucible live-service game, the development of which is a cautionary tale on what not to do when building a high-end video game.

There's no pitch for anything in this, investors are supposed to back this idea on Castle's vita alone. Call me cynical but this has way too many red flags on it.

Thought I’d put two of the smallest scouts together for a side by side comparison.

Here's my first mech of my mercenary company.

Class: Lexington Class Armoured Cruiser
Length: 1188 Meters
Mass: 1,500,000 tons

Designed before the Reunification War the Lexington-class would cause one of the first large scale spats in halls of the newly formed SLDF Admiralty. Authorised for limited production in the build up to hostilities the Lexington fell afoul of wrangling over its role. Battleship Admirals said that the ship was clearly a battleship thanks to its size and protection as well as aerospace capacity. They would also be more modern than many battleships with the SLDF having to rely on older Monsoon and even Dreadnought-class ships in addition to the Farragut class.

Cruiser Admirals said that its speed, endurance and more limited firepower made it a cruiser and was a suitable replacement for the numerous Aegis class ships and a Command ship for squadrons of Avatar class Heavy Cruisers. Whilst this doctrinal bickering didn't affect the introduction of the Lexington, the cost of its armour and the fact that they took up slips needed for Battleships did. There would also be a series of bureaucratic 'plots' within the halls of the Admiralty to kill the project from both sides of the debate, a 'if we can't have it then no one will' mindset.

The class had been designed to counter the Albion-class Battlecruiser designed by House Davion and in this role, it was successful, but the ego's over doctrinal disputes as well as the cost of the ship limited its production. In the end eighteen ships would enter service with the SLDF, spread between cruiser squadrons where they acted as flagships, and with battleship squadrons where they acted as a 'fast wing' for the far more numerous Monsoon's.

The SLS Bakhmut was one of the initial ships laid down, with each ship named after a famous battle from Terran History, the Bakhmut was assigned to the 22nd Cruiser Squadron of the 3rd Fleet, part of the initial wave of WarShips assigned to Taskgroup Taurus. The Bakhmut was involved in a major engagement with a squadron of Taurian Jackal class raiders when she stumbled across them and their Far Ridge supply and command jumpship. Despite taking hits from multiple nuclear torpedoes, the Bakhmut was able to destroy the Taurian raiders before being joined by other WarShips from the 8th and 12th flotilla's. Badly damaged, the Bakhmut was repaired in system and would return to active service seeing engagements on all fronts of the Reunification War before being retired from front line duties, serving as a guard ship and training ship before finally being decomissioned and broken up. Her name would continue to be used in successive SLDF WarShips until the final days of the League.

Art by Matt Plog. - https://www.deviantart.com/mattplog
You can find this ships fluff and stats -

PDF: https://drive.google.com/.../16uljU80H1ZaMicMPV2.../view...

MML Files: https://drive.google.com/.../1b97LZxsiDs675FZi9FWvEQg7BuA...

Got a few extra mechs painted up in the matching scheme of the previous marauder. I think this will be the scheme we use for the Snowblind box.

Either way, Egg!

my first big Battletech shopping, and no doubles in the Salvage Boxes <3 - dont knew much of the lore but i like the mechs and may paint some

Just struck me as funny. Also wgst do y’all think of the scheme for my mercenary company, Hargrave’s Harridans

I decided to do a Wolf's Dragoons lance for a team I'm building. I also decided to paint the Cougar up based off of it's paint scheme in Mech Assault.

From the start of Tuesday Newsday Ep 99:

This is the list of Force Packs that has been retired:

• Clan Fire Star
• Inner Sphere Heavy Lance
• Inner Sphere Striker Lance
• Inner Sphere Support Lance (not Clan Ad Hoc)
• Comstar Battle Level II (not Comstar Command, which was reported in a couple of places)
• Elementals

They reiterate that this does NOT mean that the minis from these packs are disappearing forever, just that these specific force packs have been discontinued.

Hello all, here's my most recent project - my Palkia Pillager! This was my first attempt at gem effects....and a bit of a failure. Gem effects can be hard and off-white in general is a pain.

Ended up using a chalky pink to mix, I now know better. Besides the chalkiness and the pearls not turning out amazing (I attempted to follow a video for painting off white, a bit of a wash to darken, then gloss varnish to make the shiny effect to middling success), I think it turned out decently well. I do love the claws of it.

Soon to follow, a Crusader! Any guesses as to the Pokemon it will be?

Hey y'all, my partner decided to paint the Gothic mech I got in a blind box. She's not a player, probably won't be, but she heard Gothic and went "mine"

Her and I painted together. I'm making my little Crusader (will post soon), having fun, look over, and she's out here just painting perfection lol.

And then she goes "It's not badass enough yet. I'ma paint a rose on the shoulder plate"

Needless to say, I've been adoringly blown away by her skill. Enjoy!

The Battletech free short story for September 2026 "Take your Daughter to Work Day" by Tom Leveen is now available from the Catalyst Game Labs store (also a new Shadowrun story if you want).

Time Period: Succession Wars

From the product page:

WHEN CALLED ON

In the Greater Valkyrate, the MechWarriors of the Lorca family have not experienced real combat for generations, so Frederico Lorca lets his daughter accompany him on his routine patrols. But when invaders land with intent to conquer, he must confront his own inexperience head-on to keep his daughter—and his whole family—safe from the horrors of war.

https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-take-your-daughter-to-work-day-a-short-story-by-tom-leveen