I caught up with Brent Evans to follow up on our Origins conversation. We discussed Big things! Mostly big things in the CBT universe.
How Awesome was that?
At Origins 2018 I caught the new Battletech director about the new beginner box and Battletech box set. He also drops a few hints to his plans for the year of Battletech at Gen Con. There a few other Easter eggs in here too.
I can’t wait for Gen Con now.
I caught up with Randall Bills at Gen Con 50 and Wow did we talk about a lot of stuff. Aside from the cool stuff for Dragonfire, We discussed Zero Day, Master of Orion, CBT, Crossfire, new plastics, and The Duke – Lords of Legacy
There is a lot of good information in here. Time to bust open Dragonfire! Check back Saturday for the Box Breaking!
Loren and I chat about the house of Kurita. Plus some of the other new things they are about to unroll. He also hints what the Kurita Combat manual is about. Plus he tells us about the campaign operations manual – it’s plug n play! He also explains some of the mechanics that set the new Valiant deck builder apart from other card games.
Thanks Loren, It’s always fun talking with you.
I sat down with Loren Coleman @ Origins Game Fair and had a great discussion. We talked about some CBT, Vikings, The Duke, Jarl, and we even started creating a new set for The Duke. It was a great time!
I really hope he wasn’t pulling my leg when he said they were going to make a Sherlock Holmes set for The Duke. It would be so cool to be a part of that!
First I’m sorry this took so long, but I had a lot of unforeseen problems after Origins that prevented me from taking the time to break this down into three parts. For example flooding put our internet provider under water, that makes the whole social media thing pretty difficult. There were other weather problems but no access to the internet was the worst. But Randall and I did talk at Origins game Fair about nearly everything Catalyst related. Since Randall had so much to say it was necessary to break it into smaller segments.
Part one is about the current trends with Sprawl Gangers. The Skirmish Game that takes place in the Shadowrun Universe. We do chat about Valiant briefly but we come back to it later.
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From The Desk of Randall.
The BattleTech Anniversary Introductory Box Set thrusts you onto the battlefields of the 31st century.
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BattleTech: Alpha Strike
$44.99 SRP
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BattleTech: Alpha Kit
$24.99 SRP
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A compilation of the tables from Alpha Strike, on heavy-duty cards for fast, easy, durable reference.
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BattleTech: Strategic Kit
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The Strategic Kit contains five heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from Strategic Operations.
