Secret Police and Colored Dragons

[Quick note: the BattleTech LEGOs you've seen here on my blog are the work of other LEGO fans on Flickr. I'm using the photos of their amazing creations under the Creative Commons license. If you like them, click on the photo to check out their other sets. I'd love to claim their creativity as mine, …

BattleTech: A Strategic and Tactical Primer (Pt 7)

Continuing my sharing of the Strategy and Tactics Guide from the defunct Clan Box Set. This is from a first draft written in 2008. All errors are my own, including bad writing. SCOUTS (RECON, PURSUIT) ‘Mechs in a scouting role are by nature extremely fast, using speed to achieve their objectives and to avoid the …

IlClan and Beyond

Work began this weekend on a new BattleTech sourcebook, IlClan. I decided to step in to wrangle the project (not write, however) into shape for a couple of reasons. This book truly sets up the “unknown future” of the universe. Considering I’m looking farther ahead to writing/managing several books dealing with the line’s progression over …

Faith, Science Fiction, and Gaming (Part 2)

Part 2 of Saving the Game’s podcast, which has me as a guest host, posted over the weekend. (You can catch information on Part 1 in my blog post last week.) In this concluding segment, I talked about: Transhumanism setting Selective settings for GMs and gamers Star Wars RPG (and an awesome sidebar regarding my …

Faith, Science Fiction, and Gaming (Part 1)

A few weeks ago I was invited to participate in a gaming podcast. This one was not your typical game industry interview, however. Saving the Game is a group of gamers who are Christian; their podcasts focus more on how elements of the Christian walk and faith can interact with games and gaming. It’s not …

BattleTech: A Strategic and Tactical Primer (Pt. 6)

Part 6 of the Strategy and Tactics Guide from the cancelled Clan Box Set. Errors are my own, as this is straight from a first draft. BATTLETECH FORCES Not every ‘Mech is appropriate for every type of scenario, so match the machine to the mission when choosing BattleMechs. This section will help you do that …