A Quick Peak into Alpha Strike Companion by Catalyst Game Labs
June 27, 2014 by stvitusdancern
Catalyst Game Labs, has given us a sneak peak into the upcoming Alpha Strike Companion release for Battletech.
Now everyone has either played or knows of someone who has played Battletech over these many years. I can remember playing it in the 80's with my friends looking for some great battle mech combat. Now there has been a lot of the speculation over what this companion will cover and now we get a look into what that will actually be.
Alpha Strike is Catalyst Game Labs, modern rules set to get into playing and battle in a quicker way. It also covers combat in many environments to include, land, sea and air. As you can see by the pictures there is going to be space combat involved. It is good to see a game as old as Battletech getting some new legs. It might just bring back some former players.
Is it time to dust off your mechs and get into the fight?
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I am hoping they will bring the widowing armour templates in to space combat with capital ships, like FASA used in the renegade legion games.
Not sure if you have seen this but scroll down to the Rentech section
It was put a few years ago then disapeared but is back again with some new people doinf stuff for it
http://www.ourbattletech.com/downloads/
“Is it time to dust off your mechs and get into the fight?”
To me thats the biggest drawback : The mech design is “dusted”. I wish they updated their stuff designwise, these day it looks like just crap.
Have you seen the new era mechs? They look ace.
Mattgro,
I remember those rules!
I think that they were a fan made set called Renegade Tech – really interesting idea, I loved blowing huge chunks of armour off with ACs!
Thanks for the link guys, have downloaded the lot. Didn’t find and ship yet but haven’t looked through the lot yet. I was, and still am a Battletech fan, DM’d MechWarrior from it’s time of release till the fall of FASA, and still have all the books and the character/mercenary company record sheets neatly filed. Time to dig it out a play again I think. @Yoshi, I agree the designs aren’t as good with the new mech’s, just lack that stolen Macross feel, will still be using the old designs for my games, and a few new stolen forms……
Battletech will only be ‘dated’ around year 3026. 😀