>>> Unless, of course, designing one-of-a-kind munchkin-Mechs in a setting where
>>> tech was supposed to be slipping backwards and most of the surviving
>>> factories wouldn't be turning out new toys for J. Random PC, even if he did
>>> have a wad of ComStar bills THIS thick was about 2/3 of the fun of playing
>>> the bloomin' thing in the first place...:(
>>
>>Fixed that for you.
>
>Um, okay, and thanks for the snark--I don't get enough of that in the
>rest of my life. :p
>
>I actually had a whole explanation of our Battletech campaign, and why
>we played it the way we did, written and ready to post. But I decided
>to remove it.
>
>Because that would be defending myself, and I don't need to defend
>myself to anyone. :)

Part of the fun we had was taking designs apart, tweaking them, then putting them out on the battlefield. Or designing from scratch -- We thought it was a challenge.

Total Warfare is a one-stop place for all the rules you'd need in a tournament, Tech Manual has all the construction rules for every sort of combat and noncombat you can think of. There are four more volumes planned, one covering campaign rules, another the RPG, and I can't recall what he last two are.....B-/

What alot of CBT players hate is they now know where the TL is going. They see Dark Age/Age of destruction (Point F), but in the current timeline, they are just getting into the WOB Jihad (Point A). They have yet to see Points B, C, D, and E.

It's bit of a downer when you see the 3130s and realize that the past 50+ years of game time has gone by the boards. Back to where a lance of light 'Mechs were the most powerful thing on the planet. No massive 'Mech battles, no RCTs burning in, just like, "We need to change the game universe to suit our needs for clickly tech." I know that Wizkids owns the game, and I know they can do anything they damn well want to, but they were not going to support CBT -- Fanpro, and later Catlysis Games Labs purchaes the CBT licence. It would have been SO much better if the WK people had spun off MW into it's own parellel universe.

Both FP and CGL had made strides in getting CBT back on the gaming scene. The new hardback books are a start. While some of us think the Jihad is a stupid idea, we now can at least be able to see how the Dark Age came about.

Craig