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If you're waiting until the fight starts to begin employing strategy, you're doing it wrong. A good strategic build can win the game before the first dice roll.

This is an awesome resource! thanks very much. Will the Necromunda Tactic Card generator be updated with the new Spyre Hunter and/or Hive Secundus logos?

Great stuff! Thank you

Btw, you don't need to work out your whole target number again for each weapon. If Mech A is shooting at Mech B, work out everything except the range modifier and call that X. Now for each weapon just add its range modifier to X. Once you expand beyond the Game of Armoured Combat starter, there are weapons that have one extra modifier (like pulse lasers apply a -2 to the number you need), but that's still just X + Y + Z. Which is easier than doing the whole thing every time.

Only started playing 4 months myself. Immediately started a on going Chaos Campaign the second month playing. Classic by the way. Not a fan of the rhetoric that Alpha Strike is 'streamline' system.

Catalyst Game Labs is a license holder the owner is Tyco and Microsoft

Very nice video. Subbed.

Old school Classic player converted over to Alpha Strike (since I got kids and very little time to fill in 3825453 tiny armor pips). I'm a total convert to the Guerilla Miniatures Games method with the d12s. You do tend to wind up with more crits overall (it seems) but I'm kind of happy with that. You definitely see a lot more of the critical damage and far more upsets from an Ammo Explosion/Cockpit Kill. Highly recommend!

Then there's me who got rid of cluster and crit chance rolls, moved through-crits to the attack instead of the location roll and halved range penalties to hit amongst other changes. I'm a bit of a heathen when it comes to the rules as written.

I fill in heat sinks with heat as I fire so I can tell pretty easily what has and has not fired. I also move the die to the rear of the torso twist direction. No idea for AS. Since the movement dice are actually not part of the rules and just a community-tested notation system you can come up with whatever you want. Maybe place one of the remaining movement dice (since you need about 3 per mech) on top of your card when done?

The IWM metal minis are quite a bit better in quality than the modern plastics - but yeah, a lot of the designs are a bit goofy.

Enjoyed the video. I have been playing both Classic and Alpha Strike for a year or two and am enjoying it. I play more AlphaStrike and like the scale of engagement and speed of the game. But I do enjoy the detail of Classic every so often - it definitely is just a different style

Battletech nowadays can be better described as a toybox dumped out in front of you. Yes the "Classic" Total Warfare scale still exists and really didn't change too much in the 40 years it lives (compared to whatever edition number 40k is at now lol), but I'm glad to see them branching out a bit. Alpha Strike, as you showed, scratches a bit of a wargaming itch and is also a great first step into Battleforce; the real strategic game. Anyone who has gotten enough Alpha Strike sessions under their belt that wants to expand a bit really should peek at that. It is where the real strategic play comes in and goes as far as you want in scale of units, albeit a bit abstracted. Meanwhile on the other end of the scale, if you want a personal touch; such as being a contender in a gladiatorial fight or having a character survive a contract, they have the RPGs which connect to Total Warfare pretty well and I think Alpha Strike works decently with it too. I can see why in your summary there's that sense of "What do I do?" CGL has always been big on the idea of "Whatever you like" as their answer. It leads to some analysis paralysis sure, but once you push past that you can engage in a honor duel via Mech Hockey rink on a planet where people cheering you on gives you bonuses. All of what I just mentioned has rules in the game, just gotta find the products that talk about them is all.

I've gotten into Battletech Classic earlier this year, but had no clue how Alpha Strike worked. Thank you for clearing that up, I may give it a try.

Thank you, great video. 👍 It feels like we may have been on very similar recent research journeys! (DFaM / Ash@GMG etc). Your observations on the game are really relatable. I'm also really intrigued at the possibilities to tweak or introduce rules, particularly around Initiative and heat push your luck / risk and reward mechanics (I decided to opt for Alpha Strike over Classic in the hope of it being an easier sell to my gaming group!). Also agree with you regarding scenarios being a positive route to follow to steer the game away from being a too simplistic position/ shoot game. Anyways! Thanks again for a great video 😬

Is a new Warhammer Quest coming?

Warcry has been a little sparse lately.

Awesome start to my day, thank you!😊

Waaaaaaagh!!! They look amazing!

Baz with an hour long vid?! Saving this til later for some painted zen!

Great ideas. Just getting into 40k and will definitely be trying this. Thank you.

I would like to start my adventure with WH Uderworlds. when is the release date of the new version?

I appreciate the effort your putting into this. Thanks

I just started playing this year and this vid confuses me. I assume this was made before the new rulebook released in 2023, where there are different rules to create your tactics card pool.

So, I really like the idea of removing dice rolls from the NPOs for the sake of speeding up the game. But I feel that the trooper marksmen become useless if they only get 2 hits. Coz for most operatives with 4+ saves, 1 auto pass for cover, and then 2 dice average is 0 damage. Making it almost no downside to moving somebody into cover on engage to get all the ranged NPOs to engage and shoot, on average dealing 0-2 damage. So no threat. And at 1 save & 1 cover, they take 3-7 damage in return. I feel that punishing the player for bad plays is the best way to firstly, teach the game, and also to make the co-op / solo game have some risk to it. It may just be my own personal preference, but a game needs to have risk of losing for it to feel fun. So my idea is NPOs hitting on 4+ get 3 auto hits. 3+ get 4 auto hits. Just to punish bad plays & have damage going back & forth. And it reflects the NPOs having CP or ploys which they don’t have. For melee, do the same. But because ceaseless lets you reroll 1-2 dice on average, I’d say they get 1 auto crit and 2 hits for 4+ and 1 crit and 3 hits for 3+ NPOs Saves I agree with you. 5+ is 1 auto save I’d say 4+ is 1 auto crit save. & 3+ is 1 crit 1 normal auto saves plus an additional save for cover. I feel that accuracy reflects a real opponents odds after using CP etc :) Agree that troopers should have Groop activation 2 with themselves coz elites just got so so many counteracts. Also I felt like reinforcements should be 3 models each turn divided as evenly as possible. So 1 heavy 1 tough & 1 trooper for example. 2 wasn’t enough. My angels of death wiped out the NPOs 2nd turning point without taking any casualties & from them I just jumped on objectives and won. I feel it would have been a better game if the map was short table edges? So a narrower but longer board to travel across? But that probably just adds more time to the game. Perhaps the best way to balance it is to give it a 4 turning point cap? Coz rules as written there isn’t a time limit. These are my thoughts. Good video tho :)

Having all book of an edition is actually very good because you can play the whole thing. And these books have quests, campaigns. Tons of content compared to kill team. So i'm not angry to have these books. But for KT... it's another story. Just think about of the amount of minis. Almost all AOS for WC, just few for KT. It's a no brainer.

Thinking about scaling back the Brawler profiles to remove an auto hit from each. After playing with them, even the Troopers were automatically getting 6 wounds in on a target if they charged. Seemed a little bit too good. Troopers at 2 hits would guarantee them 3 damage each combat which seems a lot more reasonable.

And once again, a single person can improve the solo rules better than a multi-million dollar corporation, that is just lazy. I'll stick with Core Space when it comes to figure games.

You did great job, especially with static values to speed up game. BUT KT still seems too shallow of a game to play in coop, since killing swarms wont hold up for too long. After trying something like "Rangers of Shadowdeep", it seems to Me that games need more customized scenarios, with some random events to keep it both interesting / immersive (as acctual campaign) and some randomness (so it is not pre-calculated and solved few moves before). Since KT offers only "combat" and no skills, or any extra stats not-combat-related, unlike for example Stargrave - it will be much harder to give those interesting scenarios and I doubt both GW can or want to provide those customized mission packs for coop.

Underwolrds is fun but GW makes it a bit like Magic without the options. Not to mention GW can not write rules or use wording consitently. Ever. Once they changed the cardbacks I laughed and forgot about the game. icons has been changed to guarantee it was never backwards compatible. A collectable cardgame with different cardbacks and removing most cards every year? Many of the warbands are great models though so I get some if they are nice looking. I have no doubt the maps/cardboard will cnage too just to f*ck loyal fans over and over. I mean buying cards for old warbands knowing they will eb relced again soon. ha ha ha

con esta edicion el juego murió, partiendo por el diseño de las cartas

I find the Five Psrsecs from Home solo combat system pretty easy to use so I will probably try that out in Kill Team. I'll need to assign a psychological profile to the NPOs to deternine both deployment and gameplay. If I treat the units APL as the equivilent of a FPfH Reactions score for my Kill Team, then I'll roll d6's for each member of my team. Rolls that are equal to or under the APL can be assigned to the appropriate mini to let it go first, then the NPOs go, then anyone else on my team that has not acted yet may go.

I’ve been considering, even for PVP games, just taking a cheap deck of playing cards, writing the names of the operatives on a card, and shuffling them up at the start of each turning point. You draw a card, and the corresponding model activates. It’s similar to the Bolt Action dice bag. Makes the game much more random, and competitive players wouldn’t like the lack of planning and control, but I think such a system might be good for solo or co-op play.

I'd really like to see warhammer quest style activations for NPO's. Roll a d12 and see what an NPO does based off of a chart. It works really well and would the add the ability to give the NPO's neat little things they have a chance of doing.

I've actually been working on a google doc for this exact thing myself. It's meant to be a compilation of custom campaigns and whatnot, but has rules that can be used for various scenarios including stealth missions. My stealth rule was this: player operatives are discovered if they end a turn and any of the following conditions are met: 1. a loud weapon was used within 20" of an enemy who is still alive (any chain weapon, or ranged weapon without the silent trait is loud) 2. any operative is a valid target for an enemy 3. an enemy that was attacked is still alive, or was visible to another currently alive enemy when it was attacked In addition, i have the game run as "you go, i go" during stealth (so the same turn type as 40k) so that group ambushes are possible.

Nice video. Some great ideas for activation sequence, I kinda played similarly to that intuitively, but it's nice to have it structured like that. On the topic of averages instead of dice rolls, I can understand that some people would prefer that to rolling dices whether for simplicity or to speed things up. But personally for me it's not something I'm really interested in. Warhammer is at its core is a game of dice, they bring that randomness and swing that create great moments in games. Yeah, if you're playing solely to challenge yourself mechanically, then perhaps averages is what you'll find enjoyable probably, but then why you stop at averaging only NPOs and not the player's Operatives as well? Will be more like chess, but in my opinion it takes away an important factor from the game. If I played just using averages, I would not get crazy moments when a plaguebearer (Tough Brawler) rolled 3 crits on his attacks against my space marine, that was brutal and unexpected, and since my marine rolled poorly, he went down from that backstab attack. That was a great moment in my game that changed its flow. I would've never got it if plaguebearer just averaged on his attacks (more so if I averaged my Operative as well). Still it's great idea for those of us who prefer a different style of game without that kind of swings. And it would definitely speed up things a bit. Sentries look fun, I remember similar rules in some narrative 40k missions and if I'm not mistaken, the first ever version of Kill Team (that being the one in th 4th Edition 40k rulebook) had similar mechanics. Definitely something worth a try, and I think we will see something along those lines from GW in furthern Joint Ops expansions. Thanks for the video!

For initiative I think the "Bolt Action Dice Bag" works really well though using them to keep track of the units state and collecting all dice back into the bag at the end doesnt quite work with Kill Team. I do love making custom dice so maybe there is a way to incorporate that somehow. I will play my first solo game in the next day or two and look forward to more videos like that. 👍

For the whole sentry/fog of war concept, you almost have to have a third status in addition to concealed and engaged... which would be “hidden”. An operative with concealed could reposition from cover to cover and still be an invalid target, even though the enemy saw where the moved. As opposed to a hidden operative, which has never been observed at all.

Assigning successes for npo’s, rather than rolling isn’t really that big a deal. The only thing is it eliminates the temptation of rerolling the npo dice when you don’t like what you got. 😁

Are you going to put this into a pdf? Especially team set up and activation priority sounds interesting

Some good ideas there. I’ll definitely try the random npo deployment and fixed hits.

Some great Ideas - I've been looking at this with my son, he's got 'Boss battle' Ideas also (CArnifexes etc)

Space Marine 2 game, freaking genius! This is such a wasted opportunity by GW. Either way, you'll probably do a better job. Gaunts Ghosts Kill Team: Yes please! I still cannot fathom why GW hasn't done this. They're so perfect for it and the models are amazing. 0:52 No. No seriously. They really aren't.

I wouldn’t worry about modifying solo play rules. You’re unlikely to get into an argument with your opponents. (One would hope)

I love those scatterplots you use. Great for putting certain fighters in perspective.

Very nice changes. Looking forward to try them!

As far as the individual Kill Team boxes, with tokens... yeah, if you’re someone who hasn’t bought a big box set, and just want to buy one team and use the free app, the tokens are pretty necessary to play. Sure you could scrounge up things like coins or bingo chips, but the actual tokens are better.

Not surprising GWS is cutting costs for Underworlds. Despite being a great game, the player base is tiny and sales are minimal. Where I live all the Underworlds players have moved to Kill Team or Warcry. Hopefully the changes lead to more Underworlds players.

Great insights. I immediately thought about how these changes might make the game better for players while helping the company be more efficient/profitable, etc. Glad to hear someone taking a nuanced stance on this limited info.

Great vid. I think you are correct that most of the biggest changes to this edition are driven by cost cutting. This confirma for me that WU sales are not great and GW doesn’t feel confident that sales would improve. But this is a problem GW created for itself. The real problem underlying why Underworlds (“WU”) has such a small player base is because of GW's marketing strategy (i.e. its target audience). This game, no matter how simple GW makes it, will continue to “fail” when GW targets it to GW miniature players. Miniature gamers are turned off by the card play aspect of WU to a great degree and the boardgame aspect to a lesser degree. GW should be marketing WU to boardgamers & CCG’ers. This would mean that GW would have to go outside its comfort zone (and likely its distribution network), so this is unlikely to happen. I am sad to say that I do not see this new edition having anymore success that the last two years of WU unless GW expands its market reach. WU is hands down the best tactical-arena combat boardgame I have played over the last 7 years. And I have played a lot of them. This is a niche with a slew of boardgames in it (easily 40-50 in this timeframe, such as Unmatched, Wildlands, Aristeia!, D&D Onslaught, Godtear, etc..). Yet very few boardgamers I encounter (or even engage with online) are even aware of WU. It’s a shame. And it is GW's fault.