I can’t believe it. I haven’t played Battletech since some time in high school… Until today! My multi-year hiatus finally came to a close with my epic battle with BT newbie James McGarry.
My knowledge of the rules was a little hazy, but after a little skimming of the official rule book, most of the basic rules came back to me. Even so, there were a few occasions where I felt that something special was supposed to happen but I didn’t remember what exactly, so I had to further consult the rule-book.
The battle scenario that I selected involved both James and I deploying two mechs each—one lightly armed and one moderately armed. The end-game condition was destroying either one of your opponents mechs.
The initial placement had James’ light mech in relative close proximity to both my light and medium mechs. This gave me an early advantage as I was able to immediately bring to bear the firepower of both of my mechs upon his light (and thus easier to destroy) mech. However, James used some wooded terrain to thwart many of my attacks. Meanwhile, James’ medium mech closed in on the skirmish and used its long-range firepower to deal heavy blows to my medium mech in addition to the damage my mech was receiving from engaging his light mech. With my medium mech drawing James’ fire, I had my light mech seek safety in depth 1 water. As the battle raged on, I continued to focus my attacks on James’ light mech, he continued to focus his attacks on my medium mech, and we gradually whittled each other down. He eventually destroyed most of my medium mech’s armor and came within two points of destroying its right leg. I destroyed both of his light mech’s arms, one of its legs, and one of its side torsos. Finally, after James’ medium mech failed a death-from-above attack against my medium mech, my light mech delivered the death blow to the center torso of his crippled light mech.
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