(How to) Support Battletech. NOT Catalyst! - Razör Rants 

I can't wait for this joke to pay off in like 2 weeks 😂

Razörfist moonlighting as Father Christmas?

​@@walkingcontradiction223 Under The Long Moonlight no less!

This wins the internet

Fiiiiiive F&$@ You I Was RIIIIIIGHTs

When FASA went under I cast my own hovercraft out of old wheel weights. ;-) More annoying than a swarm of LCT-1Vs!

Got a few different coins and some dice? Lets play battletech. Lol

It's like cyberpunk. Too much awareness boosting of what the corps do in it. Our corps of today are just as bad, just have better PR.

If there's one property CGL could have heavily injected the alphabet soup people into, it was SR. It makes so much more sense there, in a setting where character progression is based around "what part of my body can I alter today?", than it does in BT.

For real. My dad gave me a shadowrun 1e handbook from when he was a kid that I’ve used to great success, but when I wanted to upgrade and sought out reviews for newer editions…

@@nobodyinteresting5311 SR 2nd edition was the prime one to start with, IMO. 3rd edition was just an expanded version of 2e, but also more bloat. The later Catalyst editions are a mess.

They didn't neglect Shadowrun, they buggered it and jammed it fun of their far left cancerous political bullshit.

I must say, sir, you handled the cancelation with much more grace than I would have. You put a lot of years into BT. My response would have been much more...vitriolic.

What they pulled is still bullshit. I don't support companies that treat their people like they treated you. Ill watch the franchise die again before I support that kind of company. Im loving the Blue Dawn series and own em all. I can't wait for the new one!

You ARE battletech!

​@@caffeinatedengineer7993no YOU are battletech!

Well said, Sir. But, i can't imagine battletech without you. Even after you kill me :)))

MEGAS XLR!!

And a battletech video no less

He posts all the time on his Styx channel

MOAR

My group did that a few times long ago but we never used permadeath in any RPG unless the player consented, or had the character do something amazingly stupid despite being warned this would waive the no permadeath constraint. The group had a terrible experience with Traveller where more then half the party died in character generation. Honestly why would anyone think having a character die in character generation would be a good idea?

Mason is a king.

Dont sleep on other designers. Mason just clean the MWO models. You have people that do new stuff, or re-create the classic anime mechs.

@@samcalderon7939 no doubt. There are a few out there. Enough so that CGL wont get any of your money. Most are doing sculpts of minis CGL doesnt have yet and doesnt look like they will get to before their next kickstarter.

The MWO designs are fucking grotesque and I was a fan of what Flying Debris had put out before signing up with them.

I find the MWO based STLs to be pretty "meh". Given how simple most 'mech designs are, they're pretty rudimentary for someone who's familiar with the software to make as a 3D digital model.

same, lol

Tex from Black Pants Legion covers the Battletech franchise. His videos are great source of knowledge regarding individual mechs. I'll give anyone reading this message a recommendation to check his RU-vid channel out.

@@TheSignOfZeta Well yes, Tex is huge in the community. It's literally at the point that VTubers are doing reaction videos on his stuff.

@@TheSignOfZeta Tex is a little bitch. He may not openly support the bolshevik dipshits, but he absolutely bowed to their pressure when they threatened to cancel him for daring to so much as talk Battletech with Razor. Cowards of that magnitude are little better than the tyrants that pull their strings.

Clan Double Heatsinks

If you like robotech/macross lookup the novelisations. Some of the better done explanations of the overall setting I have seen and it continues past (for a short while). Where the originals (JP versions especially) were very much 3 standalone settings the novelisations did a great job of brining it into a single setting.

@@IRMentat cool I'll check it out

More immersion than CGLs stuff and D&D5e by 200 miles .

Ah yes, the great Mount Fluffypaws! No one dares climb it, there are rumors doing so would awaken an ancient giant!

@@Akranejames 🤣🤣

@@Akranejames That or the cat was a downed warship.

Can confirm

It was an indescribable privilege. By 1993 we had Shadowrun, Earthdawn, Battletech, Vampire, Mage, Werewolf, and D&D. Gaming was mainstream, and no longer demonized like it had been in the 80s. On the flip side it cost me $600 to get the books for Shadowrun in 90s dollars. It cost me $40 in today's dollars to get all the PDFs. It's all about the gaming group. I've returned to a 90s style and am having a blast =)

​@ChrisFoxWrites I was born in 93 so obviously I couldn't enjoy all of that :/

@@DragonFist9323 if you live in Northern California I run all these games today. There must be other ancient grognards. Where are you?

​@@DragonFist9323same, turn 30 in a week.

​@@ChrisFoxWritesI live in one of the many small towns not far from Marysville & Olivehurst.

I am not buying their lore. Only old lore.

Glad you like it. Check out Land&Sea too.

Land&Sea is a terrific series. Mechs and monster, what more could you ask for.

​@@blainepardoe4758 Sounds fun; I'll look into it!

@@theRemyLuna Based publishers as well. Quite like everything they've come out with.

G.W. always considered itself a hobby company selling plastic, and the fact that their published material _used_ to be cheap was a small comfort. Not any more of course 😅 Catalyst Game Labs being the low effort shit show that it is doesn't really have the sales to charge their customers too much. Not enough demand.

Catalyst has found other ways to exploit their player base. The biggest way is their packaging philosophy: by packing everything into "unit box sets" of 4-6 mechs, they force you to buy four to six times as much product as you really want. What's that? You want a second Bushwacker? I hope you really, REALLY want another Axman, Cataphract, and Nightstar too, because that's the only way you can buy it. $5 per mech is still a massively inflated price; the amount of plastic an the complexity of the sculpts are comparable to normal 28mm wargaming miniatures, and it is not uncommon to get 28mm figures in box sets for $0.50 - $1.00 per figure. In historic miniatures, for example, I can get FORTY 28mm late medieval infantry for $25 from Perry Miniatures; and the sculpt quality is significantly superior to Catalyst (and the plastic they use is higher quality). So Catalyst are overcharging you by 500% AND are forcing you to buy 3-6 times as many minis as you probably want, to get the one you DO want.

​@@bronco5334Don't forget the Kickstarter nonsense. "We don't produce things and then ask you to buy them, we offer to produce things if you pay us beforehand".

Gotta get that ESG money somehow.

@@proud_emmerian6510 ESG puts you on a recommended list for investors and makes it easier to aquire loans, but it doesn't mean sh*t when your customers are running away. Even companies like Blackstone are having second thoughts about ESG now.

blackrock ESGs.

ESG money + loud minority + infiltrator threats/hacktivism.

@@thurin84 Blackstone is a seperate entety, but it was on board with Blackrock for the longest time.

Need someone able to buy it out.

100%!

Same. I've long known about BT, but after one of his vids, I went on a lore binge and watched like 6 hours of videos about the factions and more specifically, the clans. Always liked the clan designs more, long before knowing the difference

@@NULLZER0112 I was all in on the Tuarian Concordat until I heard about Van Zandt.

Where can I find details?

Proof?

I am one of the Sarna Admins, and I will be honest, the Sarna crew is mostly politically neutral/centrist with a couple of outlaying woke contributors. I am the most anti-woke member of the team, not conservative, but absolutely sick of "the message" being smashed into my face everywhere. I try hard to keep Sarna balanced and feel that I mostly succeed on the wiki itself, I have even managed to get the news guys to at least reduce the political wokism he puts into the monthly round-up. (unfortunately I don't get to directly say what is included only the writer himself and Nic the owner of Sarna can make that call to entierly remove it). Supporting groomers is an incredibly serious accusation, even if some of the team are of an unfortunate woke mindset, not all the team shares this view and if you can cite me a source of this oppinion I shall do my best to address it.

Clearly he's like an elf on the shelf.

I 3d print because it's better tbh. Have more access to games and models as well as saving money while supporting small games and creators

Man, got myself a mech lance in 3D print, a beautiful Battlemaster, Archer, Shadowhawk and a Firestarter Can't wait to finish my canvas playmat and go for the glory

I'd 3d print more often, but it's a pain in the neck, since I only have a resin printer, and when I bought it people were really, REALLY downplaying how much work it takes to post process your prints and keep the printer clean. Plus, live in a small apartment, so dealing with fumes is a nightmare. Considering getting a filament printer, since they seem to be easier to maintain. No amount of quality is worth dealing with resin.

Is there a way to 3D print Gunpla? Just curious

@@Sin_Alder water washable resin, wash it in the kitchen sink, cure for a few days on the windowsill. Works a treat for me.

Meanwhile the bring back long dead factions for no reason and with craptastic levels of retconning

_Shadowrun_ has too many dragons for my taste to count as 'sci-fi.' Yeah, _Car Wars_ and _Star Fleet Battles_ published rules for them, but they weren't a core part of the experience.

"Do unto others, what will get you paid!" - MW2:Mercs

I didn't know Tex was that based.

Tex aludes to it plenty of times but doesn’t make it a part of his brand. Et al ; “You are welcome here, but I’m watching you”

The BPL got co-opted too? I guess it was only a matter of time when they made applications to join and made an irregulars discord. Eventually, someone would sabotage the flood gates.

@@mrhatty0514 Well of course after the shitshow he copped after the discussion with Arch is it any wonder? Heck I am pretty sure it was a lot of that creap that made him drop Space Station 13, too many danger hairs run nearly all of it these days and allow their "allies" and friends to run riot and crackdown on any actual fun.

@That shitshow with Arch made the Battletech subreddit a target for these people saying that we were housing closet Nazis in there because we didn’t immediately disown him for talking.

Looks like they have Groomers in their midst.

I am one of the Sarna Admins, I threatened to quit over it. Literally one person out of a team of nine is woke, with one other seemingly a bit baffled as to why there is an issue. Sadly it is the news guy who is woke so he has an amplified voice, with the owner being the one who is a bit baffled about why people hate being smashed in the face with "the message".

@@DeathwaveUK Dude it sucks that these people basically hold other people's work hostage just to preach their creepy religion. IRL Word of Blake.

You saying Heroscape suddenly makes my nostalgia kick in something fierce. God, I miss that game.

...cheap?

Pinning them together can be a chore though. They have a deeper catalog of available product and individual mechs are available unlike the catalyst approach. Sure, indivually they cost more, but you also are not buying 3-4 machines that you didn't want as well.

People who have something to feel proud about don't need a parade for it. ;-)

@@SirNomad which is ironic because pride parades are a shameful display

And looks like you're doing a good job, as well! Godspeed!

So do I.

While you are a Freebirth surat, I am in full agreement, too many say "Just give up and move on" but that is what the woke bullies want, to take what you love away from you. They do not own the past, they do not own your mind and heart, we can still have OUR franchises and hobbies. All we must do is Abjure the cancer from our minds and only accept what has gone before.

Many of those oddly shaped books were always fun to flip the pages through and consider if it's something I'd want to bring or hoe I'd use it.

Got yourself an authentic star league cache there eh? Don't let the phone company find out about it.

Odd way to spell Marauder

Aff, my Clan bretheren

or the Not-Named-Clan aka Clan Wolverine. Although McEvedy was right: Bad Ole' Nick was a power-hungry madman. _Prepare to reap the whirlwind!_

@@DAZzler3K That's even better