Another amended post:

Its occurred to me (silly me) that some of you might not know what Battletech is. Instead of me doing injustice to it by trying to explain it, go check out the Battletech website for more details.

The idea of our group is to play BT games regularly via a variety of mediums such as:

1. Megamek - online version of the BT boardgame. Still being upgraded and developed.
2. Face to face boardgame.
3. Mechassault, Mechcommander and Mechwarrior computer/xbox games- online or LAN.
4. Mechwarrior clicktech - easy to learn fast play miniatures game.
5. anything else I missed out.

I've setup a seperate Battletech forum for Battletech gamers because I'm hoping to attract other non-MARS members to join us as well. At this stage, I have a few friends in Singapore & UK that are interested.

JT





Amended post:

It looks like we all agreed to play Battletech online via Megamek. For those who are interested, please note the following instructions.

You'll need to have the following programs installed:

1. Game Voice Share
2. Hamachi Virtual Network
3. Java
4. Megamek
5. The Drawing Board - for editing your units

You can find these programs/links at: JT's Battletech webpage.

I've setup JT's Battletech Forumspecifically for battletech games at have the latest updates for our BT games.

You'll need to DL the latest MM program (check the development versions, not the stable release ones)- its currently 0.33.3. You'll need TDB for editing your units. Use Hamachi to provide Hamachi IPs for hosting games and using GVS hosting if required.

The ruleset used are BMR+Maxtech. But aspects of Total Warfare edition is being phased in.

cheerio, JT


Previous post:
Howdy all,

I'm thinking of starting a Battletech/Mechwarrior Campaign. This is just to see if anyone's interested before I post up more details about what I have in mind. But here's what I propose for gameplay:

1. Mechwarrior RPG - once a week session, weekday afternoon, on campus.

2. Battletech - play online via Megamek.

Any interests?

JT

*raises interest*

- joseph

I'm not sure that's really how he wanted you to declare interest, dear...

John, what happened to the potential Serenity RP? Or was that just me being hopeful again?

ooh. Serenity? Sure! I'ld love to get the old group back for the campaign again. I'ld post something up about it.

But yah, I'm not doing my PhD anymore. So I have time to even run 2 games per week! :D

JT

<- Enjoys piloting 100 tonne killing machines

i wanna play serenity! *pouts*

:rolleyes:

serenity or battletech/mech ...

havent played battletech/mech .. but serenity had fun character creation .. .. ack ! choices !

- joseph

lol!!! I aim to run both Serenity and Mechwarrior/Battletech. Anyways, I've posted up a thread for Serenity. So go ahead and put yer names down for it. The good thing with Battletech is that we can always play online if we need to.

But yah, with mechwarrior/battletech, I'm looking for a small group of about 2 to 3 players. Since Joey & Dave are up for it, it will definately go ahead for next week.

JT

*Runs through thread with Serenity banner*

Hi guys, I confirm that Dave, Owen & Joey are in for Battletech/Mechwarrior. We'll meet at MARS on Tuesday 6 March at 1330hrs for our first session.

JT

*Pulls out Serentiy banner and draps it over playing table.*

:D

Good meeting today guys. We have Kim joining us as well. That makes 5 players in the campaign. If anyonelse wants to join us, please go to the Battletech Forum for more details.

JT

Sorry for the delay. I've been a bit busy at work. But I'll post the Battletech update on the BT forum on friday.

JT

BT Forum updated. Will add more over the weekend. JT

Hi all, BT meetup at 1330hrs on Tuesday 20 March. Bring your notebooks. I'll get the Battletech campaign rolling on that day.

JT

Can do! though I may be a tad late for it.

awesome. I might just run Mechwarrior RPG on tuesday instead of just messing around with mechs. Will have to figure out a way to make the system more palatable.

Oh yes, bring your notebooks. And if you can, get Mechcommander 2 installed. If you don't have it, make sure at least your machine has daemon tools installed.

JT

PS: booger. Stuff that. Just bring your notebooks along. We'll use megamek instead. MC2 is quite buggy for what we need.

Mechwarrior meet up - 27 March at 1330hrs. JT

Sorries I wasn't about tuesday. Kinda celerbrating the fact my works over for 3 weeks. Kinda forgot.. ^_^'

lol! No worries. We're just doing up the characters at the moment. We start officially this coming tuesday. I'll post up the campaign details over the weekend.

JT

next MWRPG session to be on 17 April - after we all get back officially. Session will start at 1230hrs (can you guys make it earlier?)

JT

Oops. please note that we're meeting on 24th instead. more details to follow.

JT

Meet up at 1230 at MARS room.

JT

Howdy all,

Its already T2 and I still haven't got this game up and running. sorry sorry. its my fault.

I'm going to put MWRPG on hold until the hols so that people won't have to worry about time commitment.

At this stage, I have 4 people committed for this game. And I'm not keen to run it if even 1 of those 4 can't make it. As I mentioned to you guys when we met up, doing a mechwarrior story is not an dungeon-bash, but a "Band of Brothers" type game.

Meanwhile, I'm open to suggestions from anyone on what we can do as an impromtu game.

JT

I would be committed, but I had two things turn up at the last minute on tuesday when you held the game. Random chance hates me. Shame to see it stop before I got to try it.

soo .. umm .. yeah ? .. it happening tomorrow ? .. i'll head to the mars room for random b anter and what not either way ..

- joseph

sorry guys. I will probably do something ad hoc which is BT related as opposed to the MWRPG given that the test/assignments/exams are all getting closer. While I might not be a student, I don't want to be contributing to poor grades.

But, I give you all my promise, that once the exams over, I'll start MW up during the holidays. And if I get my SWRPG Saga Edition by then, I'll see about doing that as well.

Meanwhile, anyone up for some Megamek action?

JT