[donkey]

well amazon suck it comes up with books

[Bloodredwolf]

those are needed for the rules. for the figures look at ral partha.

[Panzerboy]

here's some cool figures.

Iron Wind Metals.com

[donkey]

are there any sides in battletech

[Bloodredwolf]

there are two major faction the clans and the inner sphere. these divide themself in about 14-18 clans, depending on the time. and 5 major houses of the inner sphere. there is also comstar and it`s splinter group word of blake and some merceneraries, pirates and minor houses/ confederations.
so you have the free choice what you wanna be.

[donkey]

cool sounds fun do u play

[BlckWyerve]

Don't play Dark Age as it is t3h gay. Play at 3050, good diversity of factions. (Before the Gray Death Legion was obliterated I think)

[Bloodredwolf]

ya, the gray death legion nearly got annihilated in the davion-steiner civil war.

i played the tabletop for quite some time. me and friend formed an small cluster without any npc. we startet 3045 as clan wolf, made the invasion and became clan wolf-in-exile (we are wardens). after that we switched to the rpg, with different timesettings and affiliations.

[Godwin]

some of the mechs look stupid, especially those humanoid ones that stand up straight and have heads....

[Panzerboy]

do ya mean the atlas?

[BlckWyerve]

About 40% of them look like that. But I would hardly call the Atlas stupid.

[donkey]

the cataoult rules whats the diffence between tabletop game and RPG game its confusing

[Bloodredwolf]

the tabletop is a turn bases strategy game with miniatures of military units (mostly mechs) on a hexagon playing field. role playing is kind of low in the tabletop.

the rpg is a pen-and-paper rpg you create your character and play it.

[donkey]

RPG sounds fun the tabletop game sounds like warhammer anyway u just need a pen and paper for the RPG not to menton rules

[Bloodredwolf]

lokk for this: Mechwarrior RPG 3rd Edition, it should get you started.
problem is this thing arn`t printed anymore, so you need to find some stock-sale. or you start looking for pdf...

[BlckWyerve]

http://store.homerga...merpg3rded.html $25

[Bloodredwolf]

about the same price here in germany, i found a page where they want 13 english pound.

all i can say is: it`s worth the money.

[Panzerboy]

ya it is!