Battletech is definitely more complex and is overall a better game, but Alpha Strike is better when you just want to have a few quick games or if you want to bring a lot of units.
I'm certain that the Sharks/Foxes engaged in an above average amount of hand rubbing when they realized how much they could mark up something with all those expensive weight-saving components, especially that 400XL engine.
Some of these mech icons are just straight up just PGI designs, I wonder if CGL can still chase them about that.
Some of those mech description codes are straight out of Battletech -- Dragoon, for example, uses the same DRG-XX signifier as the Dragon. I saw a Champion IIRC that used the standard CHP-xNy code.
No, the elementals I received last year also have this same quality and those came from their online store. The quality of their plastic miniatures are pretty bad. I’ve received a kodiak in the clan ad hoc star with 2 left arms and a rifleman with sagging barrels.
I ran the prime it's expensive at over 3100 bv (3155)
Yup. The C is similar to the DW Prime, trading in the Ultras for SSRM-2 and upgrading the LRM to an LRM-15, the B's got jump jets and pulse lasers with a TC to guarantee you'll hit even with you bunny hopping more than a Quake player, and the D's got Gauss, LB-20-X, 2 LPL, and ECM. The A's probably the weakest since it has a bunch of machine guns but even then a UAC/20, 2 SSRM-6, a pair of LPL and an Active Probe is nothing to sneer at.
It's got an ER SL of Doom on it, you know it's good.
Playing BattleTech competitively at all is retarded to begin with. Playing Alpha Strike competitively is even more retarded. The game is practically designed for you to throw randomly-generated lances at one another. That's what those free Alpha Strike stat cards are for.
I like the structure that they tried to do with AS350 because it limited people to 2 copies of any unit and no skills better than 2 and only one unit could have that along with era limitations. The game stops being fun when a guy with a bunch of skill 3 or less [7+/7+/x ] units just blow up everything you have then take the objective. That said, it’s incredibly gay seeing people fielding infantry guys to squat objectives and a bunch of other faggy WAAC shit gets old quick. It seems like that kind of tourneyfagging is bad in AS.
Originally this WAS supposed to be a more straightforward Battletech fan game.
I thought I saw something he said that implied he was forced to rebrand, but I can't find it again with a quick search. But yeah, it looks fun.
