So I used to play Battletech a long time ago. I was an annoying little brother who tagged along with his older brother and his friends to play it. We pretty much had everything but that was over 30 years ago. I saw this box set on the shelf at the local bookstore which reminded me I did enjoy the game so I picked it up recently to give it a try with the kids. This is the basic rules starter box which retails at 20 dollars.
Here is the collection of stuff from the box. Not bad for 20 dollars these days.
These mech cards are the best thing in the box. They are dry erase so you can mark down the damage, then erase and repeat next time. If you look close you will see these cards have only armor and no internal structure. This is the basic version of the game so that level of detail is left out. There are 8 cards with 2 for each mech type introduced in the box.
You also get 4 double sided pilot cards which add a little something extra with different Gunnery skills and special rules. The cards have a point value which you are supposed to match between to two sides.
On the punch out sheet you get some double sided terrain pieces to put on the plastic map. You can use these to add or change tree types or cover elevations or such.
Desert Blanks.
Short full color gloss rules book. You also get a 4 page fluff primer. You can see from the page I selected that tables and modifiers are still the name of the game.
Classic Cardboard Standees. These are the mechs I am used to. We had two reinforcement boxes when we were kids to cover almost all the mechs. Here you get 8 so two lances of 4. Red verses Blue but the Locusts are different colors. Not quite sure why. I guess they need camo since a solid hit from any of the other mechs will punch through their armor.
We got 2 games in last week to discuss in a future post.
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