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Four mechs down (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Frostbeard@lemmy.world to c/battletech@lemmy.world

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We played a game to brush up on the rules. 6000BV trying to stay in ca. 3025-3049.

He did not have time to prepare so went with four shooters-8A (all proxies) I went Battlemaster-1Gb, Black Knight-6b-KNT, Catapult-1C and my one stray into clan era with a Wraith-1.

Thanks to some seriously unlucky dice all four of his mech fell down thanks to one getting two crits in CT, two taking >20 damage and one missed kick. All failed pilot checks...

Never seen that before. Edit: we did play fast and loose since we were relearning rules and the LGS was closing soon.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember playing a battletech session about 30 years ago. As a "guest" to the group I was only given a Pegasus light hoover tank and some infantry. But I was the first to take down a mech by hiding in what I saw as a possible escape route of the enemy. Lo and behold, one enemy mech was damaged and tried to escape, and my group took him down with the tanks SRMs and those hand-held infantry napalm rockets.

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Solid tactial decision :)

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

We claimed the mech, but we only got 50% because others had worked it down to make him flee. But you would not believe what kind of infantry gear you can buy with that! The other half got our mech fighters a handful of replacement sheet metal and change.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Bug out

[–] AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those dice look really nice. Are they custom made? Its the first time i see ones like that

[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Those are movement dice from Baron of Dice. https://baronofdice.com/collections/battle-robots/products/movement-dice-set

They have more for "Battlerobots" as well. Outside the US the shipping can be quite high, I got mine on a larger order from a Norwegian gamestore.

Search for "movement dice battletech" on eBay as well.

[–] AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks i was thinking about printing them, since they are just markers, it doesn't really matter for them to be fair dice