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Forum Name: City of Heroes
Topic ID: 24
Message ID: 13
#13, "Clicky-Tech" (was RE: Anyone here looking forward to C
Posted by Zox on Mar-19-08 at 08:08 PM
In response to message #8
>>(Sorta like the "Clicky-Tech" Mechwarrior game--I don't care what the
>>box says, it's _not_ Battletech.)
>
>No, but - assuming you're referring to the series of
>you're-in-the-cockpit single-'Mech sims - it's (IMO) a highly
>entertaining series of games set in the BattleTech universe.
>For something that actually plays like tabletop BattleTech,
>what you want is MechCommander.

As BZArcher said, I'm talking about the WizKids miniatures game "Mechwarrior: Dark Ages." Although it looks like "Dark Ages" is now just part of "Age of Destruction": http://www.wizkidsgames.com/mechwarrior/mw_home.asp

It's played as a miniatures game on terrain, with miniatures on a larger scale than the old lead figures--but with even more truncated weapons ranges relative to the scale of the figures.

You buy pre-assembled, pre-painted plastic 'Mechs, with pre-generated stats on pre-printed discs permanently glued into the base. If you want a 'Mech or pilot with different stats, you have to buy another miniature and hope it's got what you want.

The rules have been "simplified," so the rules booklet is _only_ 40 pages long--plus a separate 8-page foldout for "special equipment." Also, you get to memorize some cutesy icons for various damage and modifiers.

Oh--and the whole technology level's been slagged back down again to even worse than it was back in 3025. So a really really HUGE battle, for control of a planet, might have two 'Mechs on each side, with some vehicle and infantry support.

At least they still support "Classic Battletech"--the original game system--to some extent. But they actually _removed_ the design rules from the latest version, because after all custom 'Mech designs can't be used in tournaments so why would you need to build them? Unless, of course, designing new hardware was about 2/3 of the fun of playing the bloomin' thing in the first place...:(