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Battletech Campaign Introduction

Wingmates!

This is a guide to joining the Battletech Tabletop Role Playing Game (TTRPG) that I will be running on a semi-regular basis.

To those of you that are unfamiliar with Battletech, it is a science fiction universe set in the 4th millennium, with this particular campaign set in the years after 3200. The premise of the setting is that in the far future, humanity has colonized the stars, and factions fight amongst one another with the Battlemech, a 12-meter-tall walking war machine, as the dominant form of battlefield weapon.

The players will be thrust into this world of endless conflict as a unit of Mercenaries. Players will be free to make their own decisions about the future actions of their

Players should join the discord server here: https://discord.gg/ku9AgCmQAT

Since the server is still new, there is no automatic role system, and I will manually add anyone joining to the correct role.

If you are using voice chat, it would be appreciated if you could put a reactive image into your Discord FugiTech profile: https://reactive.fugi.tech/ This will allow viewers to know who is speaking. The image does not have to be anything specific, as long as it is distinct.

This will be used for chat discussion of campaign events, and for voice chat during sessions.

The Megamek application will be used in order to actually run the game. The exact version linked below must be used, or the game server will not allow the connection: https://github.com/MegaMek/megamek/releases/tag/v0.49.8

In order to more easily track expenses and income that would come over the course of a mercenary unit's existance, we will be using an abstraction based on the Chaos Campaign system: https://bg.battletech.com/download/CAT35600_ChaosCampaign_Rulebook.pdf

This system uses Warchest Points and Support Points to represent the funds, assets, and supplies that a force needs to function. This removes the hard work of individually repairing mech parts as per the rules, but still keeps some of the challenges of force management. The system will be modified in order to suit the campaign better. These changes will be announced and recorded.

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Greetings Wingmates!

I have opened up a Tumblr blog as an experiment in increasing the verbosity of my communications!

While brevity may be the soul of wit, it is also the bane of understanding.

As such, since this particular site allows for far greater flexibility in content, perhaps it would be a better system for communicating with more nuance than a micro-blogging service offers.

I would eventually like to have a proper site of my own, but for the time being, this may do. Please look forward to more informational posts here.

Links:

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