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Could someone please let me know which program is being used to view the mech loadouts in this video? Thanks in advance.

If everyone brings bad mechs then nobody brought a bad mech

Bonus Tip: Press Ctrl-A to select all Groups on the Unit selection dialogue, or shift click to select multiple (ie. IS Introductory Box Set + IS TW non-box set)

Randomly exploding makes for exciting casual games. But I heave a giant sigh whenever i see designs with a single SRM2. Or a full ton of MG ammo for 1 or 2 MGs. Maybe just whenever i see a full ton of MG ammo at all.

AC-5. Too heavy for its low damage and has to carry ammo. SRM 2. You can probably work in an SRM 4 if ur considering a srm2 onto a mech. Which is far better Machine Gun..aka the inferior small laser...just use a small laser

An illustrative example of the BV costs of speed, firepower, and armor consider the following: 1: An Atlas with NO WEAPONS except a BIG STICK, and has max armor (4/6 movement, Hatchet) 2: A Banshee with THIN SKIN but two PPCs and six medium lasers. (22 heatsinks, 4/6 movement and only 88 freakin points of armor) 3: A BEACHED WHALE with 4 AC-10s, aka The Annihilator 1-A. (2/3, 200 points of armor, only ten rounds per gun, and a whole 18 heatsinks) All mechs are tech level one, standard engine, heck, standard everything. Which mech is the most expensive? Which is the cheapest? The BV costs are relatively close. The BEACHED WHALE is the most expensive at 1434. Atlast BIG STICK costs 1391. And its the fragile THIN SKIN Banshee thats the cheapest, at 1289!

My issue with the SRM carrier is that people won't want to return to the table after having to count out the damage for every individual missile. At least being swarmed by urbies is a funny way to lose

clan pulse lasers, the only digusting clan CRAP ill bother getting

The shadow hawk. Jack of all trades, terrible at all of them. It has decent armour and mobility but that is it. In a game I made testing out a scenario i literally left one alone in my side/read arc as it's AC5 and SRM2 is pituful. My houserules of doubling the AC5 fire rate and trippling the AC2 make it marginaly better but still. Centurion is better at everything. The Jaggermech is a good light me h harasser imho. But yeah, a strong sneeze by something like a Thunderboltcan topple him over. Using my house rules makes it better but until you add endo, the design is just not armoured enough. I get the role it iseant to play in combined arms. It isnlike a shilka. Protection against small arms and shrapnel and dedicated AA platform. But in mech vs mech of the succession wars... I mean, it has the tonnage of a thunderbolt with the armour of a blackjack. And if you go endo, you can customize the design further removing all ACs and replacing them with 2 UAC10s for instance. He k you don't even need endosteel, replace the autocannons with 2 AC10s and that is it. You have spate tonnage for armour now and you will punch harder.

Masc gives you the run speed of a bigger engine for a lot less mass than a proper upgrade. I think the BV2 cost is justified on some machines. I find it useful on brawler heavies / fast assaults, the two extra MP will close range brackets a lot faster, especially against a backpedaling opponent... and once you're in optimal range you would stop using it anyway. Any turn when I would run anyway I can engage MASC with high chances it works. With run-and-gun mechs moving just to maintain TMM, now you're paying 100% cost for 66% benefit... plus for a couple tons of extra weaponry versus what you'd be able to with a larger engine.

Huge thanks for this explainer. Is there also a resource for c-bill cost? I wonder what the differences are for cost/benefit. Edit: seems dominated by engine size, then heavy weapons. Surprised by high costs on Assassin, Archer, JagerMech, Charger, Banshee

Over on the MegaMek discord there's also a guy working on "Mega strike" which is an Alpha Strike port to the mega mek environment on 2D hex maps. There's good fan projects out there.

Except that range 1-2 is a highly relevant range band

It looks great! Love the effects and animations, and I like how it has the armor/structure pips and the movement dice right about the Mechs. I do hope the dev continues to develop this, as a dedicated Alpha Strike app would be amazing. That said, I DO have an acquaintance who created a mod for Table Top Simulator(Steam) for Alpha Strike. It's not as flashy or polished of a UI as this game, but it has 3d models & terrain that can be movedaround as well as AS Cards for many Mechs. It's a bit more manual in how you have to interact with it, but it's perfectly playable. Def going to give this a shot!

Will check it out

I'm glad the computer issues were resolved with relatively little pain.

I appreciate the call out to Reactor Ops on your fabulous channel, my friend! The feedback is valuable. My current approach is to keep the functions of each 'page' simple and single-purpose to ensure things are fast, maintainable, and reliable - especially to gather some momentum early on. But I'll meditate on your suggestions for improving the Search experience, of course.

Does it handle Taxes (C3, TAG/Coming Semi Guided etc)?

Interesting 🤔

youtube.com/@battlemaster-1g?si=kyGPZwLCwVcofDie check out the Reactor Ops RUclips channel!

Books and Page numbers would have been nice for us analog players.

I saw this guy's OP on Reddit. Haven't tried it yet but it looks better and better!

I never understood, why skirmishers like the SRM carrier or Saladin hover tank do carry so much ammo. Once they show their nose, they may get one salvo out, but are focussed down rapidly immediatly after. Usually a waste of unit. But: If the opponent knows, that a part of the map is 'covered' by a highly mobile AC20 or a wall of SRM death, you can simply deny areas or force enemy fire away from your usefull units. So at least they served some purpose. ;)

We recently played two games with hillariously bad 'Mechs. Each of us built a lance for the other. Turns out, a normal Shadow Hawk, Urbi, Scorpion, or Champion is far better than expected. AC10 or PPC in such a bad machines melee are king. The SHD-2D, CDA-2B, and DV-6M are still extremely bad though.

Very good tactical concepts explained here, not only relevant for BT btw. ;) Reg. the Awesome firing first on the SHD: I usually try to always hit the weakest armored unit, if the TMM is the same between several potential targets, thus ensuring a quicker end to one OpFor unit. When the AWS went fwd. instead of into the woods, I think princess rather tried to get in even better range, while benefitting from PC, but yeah, that is princess for you. :D And yes, lights and fast movers that go slow (below 3 TMM) are dead meat. Sometimes I even forgoe a 6 to hit on a big boi, if I chance the light one against 7 or 8 with enough guns to really hurt. Btw, getting into the back or at least left side of the Vulcan with your Falcon, you could have walked backwards (button 'back up') there, giving you the same low TMM of 1 but only walking instead of running, right? Same with the GHR as is jumped so conveniently close. Why make life harder on yourself? :D And I like how you use and recommend MegaMek for beginners (e.g. in you 6 min video). Due to its very strict rules adherence beginners may wonder: 'But why can't I do jump in circles for better TMM?' and actually look it up to understand. Very nice work!

Very nice speedrun. Some points though: Jumping heat: number of hexes but minimum of 3 every time. Success/Hit: roll exactly the number or above, not over. The +1 per 20dmg taken does not give you +2 if kicked with 20dmg, only +1 on in this case both rolls. Keep up the good work and have a sub. ;)

As an initiative balancer, I like the following. Every time you roll, you get a bonus equal to the number of times your opponent has won initiative the whole game. Really tends to equalize the average outcome without making any one init roll too predictable.

Oh this is cool, I don't have a Battletech scene out where I live. Hopefully CGL doesn't throw a GW style fit...

Neat, a new medium to drown enemies in waves of HBestKs

I can try playing alphastrike now.

Full star of Bane 3s (and spotters) behind building on your starting area. That's the Sigma Strike grind set!

Might I suggest the Protomech Melee Weapon? Take everything we know and love about regular BattleMech Melee Weapons, and give it to a machine that will at most weigh 3/4ths of the Locust, and can't mount TSM. That's the ProtoMech Melee Weapon, and it is not very good. On the other hand, the ProtoMech Quad Melee System and Electric Discharge ProtoMech Armor are both scary. PQMS + EDPA puts the Basilisk Quad B on par with the regular Basilisk Quad, which has ten rounds of SRM-4 ammo.

Love it! Alphastrike being the twin system to the lesser known Battleforce game (where the alpha strike stats originated) getting a computer game is way over due. If there was a way to couple your system with the strategic Battleforce game, then players can finally do larger scale games. ie, your battleboard could represent 1 hex on a strategic Battleforce map.

For online play with alpha strike there is a great TTS mod

LRT-20. It's a lot of tonnage for a weapon that might never get a chance to fire

I dont get why would anyone play with floating criticals. Rolling a 2 is the same as rolling a 12 - extremely rare and lucky. So why would you be punished for rolling a 2, by making another roll for location, but not punished for rolling a 12? Both of them can lead to the mech being destroyed. Also it makes ballistic weapons even worse by allowing a random TAC ammo crit.

That looks fantastic. Fan Battletech game reaches 2010's graphics 😊

Haha. I'm the author of this thing. But always considered it no more than a hobby project. I never expected someone to make video reviews on it. It's a very strange and unfamiliar feeling. Nevertheless, thanks for your attention. The project is not finished, there's still a lot of work to do, but I keep working on it when time allows.

It is not you jest have to manage heat better

The perfect usecase for the AC20 urbanmech is a garrison defense with level 2 high walls I fielded one on double blind in a campaign game and it killed the main character... In an alternative timeline where they didn't have edge because protagonist syndrome For that case specifically, yeah it serves a purpose. Otherwise, not so much Though the LB10X urbanmech serves a niche in being the cheapest way to get an LB10X on the field. Unironically considered breaking up my Blackjack OC into two of them and saving 200 BV for a dday tournament

My favorite pre-invasion non-lostech weapon is the SRM 6. Not as efficient as the classic medium laser, but able to put out a massive amount of damage per turn, enough so that a pair of them beats the AC20. Also worth noting that a pair of SMR 6 can deal (potentially) 24 damage for only 8 heat, while medium lasers would deal 25 damage for 15 heat. It's just my all around favorite high damage support weapon.

Every other hex concealed Infantry. We'll bleed em or flood the field to win :3

Of course we need a balanced list-that’s why there are so many hunchback variants. Praise be to the 4G and the 4P. Blessed are the 4J, the 4SP, and even the 4N. Though the 4N exists only as a walking smoke LRM cover for the remainder of the Lance. Big fan of optimized vehicles to fill in gaps. I love the Gauss HBK as much as the next guy, but that’s one fewer HBK punching someone. Let the tankers deliver the Gauss rounds. And if you’re playing late enough to have IS light engines, you also have every way of avoiding Ammo explosions you could want. So now the Hunchback swarm is fast and even more survivable than in 3025.

9:00 Off the top of my head a comparable IS unit is Kurita's Sabaku Kaze hovertank. 136 armor points, 9/14 move. 4 Meds and 2 Small lasers in the turret. SRM4 packs mounted front and rear.

Big issue with MASC is that the calculations for BV use the max possible movement modifier to determine a BV multiplier for both Offensive *and* Defensive values. And as pointed out, the BV treats MASC as always running. The same issue, incidentally, applies to UAC weapon BV as well This is why I *really* like the optional rule to start MASC rolls on 1+ rather than 3+.

Maybe I’m out sync but I thought splash damage applied to ppc. Like missiles damage is broken down in 5 pt clusters. I may have read a rule incorrectly.

Did anyone else get a "3D" Effect on the first 40 seconds? I thought I was trippin!

Yeah the RAC rule came out years after the ultra autocannon rule and you can tell. I always house rule that it works like RACs.

I'm used to Clan ER-PPC's, so heat isn't as much of a problem compared to damage output, but BV is doubled. Regular PPC's allow for a similar playstyle when comparing the drawbacks of IS ER-PPC's.

Looking at modern BT weapons, it's clear that the game is never going to introduce weapons that make the standard PPC irrelevant. Like even the Clan ERPPC and LPL are the same 1:1 heat for damage, and you can even out their advantages with spacing and TN optimization