BatteTech News: Adepticon - Force Pack Forecast 2024 to 2027
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2024
- Over 32 new force packs coming at us for BattleTech! Let's look at some juicy pictures of what these force packs will contain. Also I'll give a summary of the major BattleTech news from the conventions, and a look at what is to come in the next several years, for this beloved game.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:11 - General Convention News
05:06 - Force Pack Forecast 2024
07:13 - Force Pack Forecast 2025
13:22 - Force Pack Forecast 2026
14:54 - Force Pack Forecast 2027
16:32 - Wrap It Up
#battletech #battletechminiatures #catalystgamelabs - Ігри
Corrections:
- Distribution center for Europe still in the works/coming someday.
- Removed bad ending edit. Whoops.
- Fix chapters.
I am hoping for House Marik and Liao force packs too.
I’m a new player so thank you for including images of each mech, helps a lot!
Welcome to BTech and you are most welcome! Thanks for the kudos. It means a lot.
Wow you really did an awesome job adding pics of all the mechs, thanks
Thank you! 🙏 I find it helps to really visualize what the packs will feel like. Check out some of my other Btech videos, specifically the Star League force packs for similar treatment. I think I have to do a combined picture/update again here soon. All the Mercs stuff + this forecast is a heck of a line up. 👍🙌
Taurian concordant needs some love: merch, force manual, force packs, novels. don’t forget about the periphery!?!?!?!
So fucking hyped as. Jade Falcon we get our TOTEM MECHS!!!! Damn I’m gunna be so broke when these come out. Buying a galaxy worth.
Very bird of prey like … all of ‘em. They look great. 👍
I just want my republic of the sphere mug.
Me too.
I am very excited for the Reaving set. Been waiting for plastic protomechs for years. Not a fan of the metal sculpts.
Here is hoping the dont remove the aesthetic of the protos.
Praise Blake!
Would have liked to see a templar III and enforcer III in the Davion force pack
Lack of a Raksasha or a Falconer breaks my 40 year old heart, but i really feel like a kid again looking forward to Christmas.
There's a Falconer in the very first pack shown in this video. The really sad missing Davion mech from TR3055 is the 184kph Fireball.
Plan is for a distribution center in Mainland Europe and UK , they are having some VAT issues to sort out but it's moving forward slowly. Side note this does not affect the KS shipping, KS shipping is done by a separate company.
Kurita Mug is the best looking. Get 2
Fox patrol is a must read
Thanks for the info drop along with the mug and book love. Appreciate it! 👍
Excellent overview and wrap-up of the Adepticon roadmap stuff!
Thank you! 🙏
I’m so excited for those Davion force packs. I really love heavy cavalry mechs and several of those mechs had been on my plastic wishlist.
Glad to see a bunch of the Mechwarrior 4 mechs coming.... but they certainly spread them thin. So many of these packs have exactly *one* mech I want (and want multiples of), surrounded by three pieces of crap. I think I may just be falling back onto 3d printing instead. Catalyst has already done enough that makes me dislike them; making their products so unattractive in an obvious attempt to make me pay extra for mechs I don't want by bundling them the way they do really puts me off of buying from them
I do MAYBE have one problem ........ One of each ProtoMech isnt going to be enough ........ Probably be better off with 5 of 2 types per box
For these larger box sets it is very unclear to me what the packaging format and number of mechs will be. I agree. You really need multiples of protos. Maybe they are actually individual force packs like battle armor? As described/broken out by the spreadsheet, if some of these packs do include 6 to 8 mechs, that's something pretty new from our standard 4-5. Some battle field fog has to clear here, for sure. Thanks for the comment and watching. Appreciate it!
I'm not sure how the society did protomecj points. 3 7 9? Or still 5 like clans.
I believe the Clan Wolf pack also includes an Ice Ferret for the fifth mech in the star
The editing team has been fired! Haha. Thanks for catching that.
10:30 more joy see glad i caught your vid ....... Love the HexTech stuff and more terrain would be fantastic ......... And im a neckbeard who prefers mapsheets , roll up or paper
Putting all the tripods in one box with enough parts to make, all of them would be very expensive. They’ll probably be like the premiums where you can pick and choose
Yes. Sounds like all the variant pieces to make the version you want with one main set of legs/torso. 👍
Alpha Wolf, I considered it the omni upgrade for the Mad Cat II.
Kinda hoping that the Summoner/Thor at 13:56 is actually the newer Grand Summoner/Thor II, with Endosteel and pod mounted jump jets, it increases its total pod space from 22.5 to 30.5 tons of pod space and .5 tons additional armor. Just a slight variance in appearance, but it is fairly distinct when compared side by side.
Funnily enough, I almost put that in as the picture … and was going to talk to that. It seems to fit this force pack to a T.
The light mech company pack is something I really need right now. Also weird to see three years out and almost nothing for Liao, not even a pack with a Vindicator in it.
Liao Assault Lance ForcePack: YuHuang, Ti T'sang, Jinggau, Thunder
Good job
Thank you.
Aerospace kickstarter!!!!👍👍
CGL is very cagey about it … but they were about vehicles being the next Kickstarter too. I think it’s pretty likely. We just have to give it a few years. 👍😂
12:00 love the Ares is coming out , thats 100 dollars here in Oz . And as a Capellan Partisan i loathe the Republic of the Sphere more than the accursed Davions and even i weep for their passing . Surely the Ares will be one set of legs with the 4 configerations as detachable tops ....... But we can hope for either
Ah! Good thinking. 4 bodies on top of the tripod legs makes a lot of sense.
During the Adepticon livestream it was stated that it will be 1 mech with swappable arms/shoulder weapons so you can make all 7 super heavy tripods out of one box (They only listed 5 configurations in the spreadsheet but the other two are the Left arm from one of the list configurations and the right arm from a different configuration).
We just got our shipping costs in the backerkit... I need to pay almost half of what I backed in shipping in VAT in Europe.
This is scam levels, though CGL is "looking into it". But then again, they put "EU friendly shipping" on their KS too.
Ugh. I'm really sorry to hear that. Shipping costs are the worst. (Edit: Sounds like from the Kickstarter update just now they are seeking to get an update from the shipping company as soon as they can for an explanation of the high cost.)
I truly hope they make the Protomech miniatures look better. Those things always looked so derpy.
Scroggins and crew have high odds of saving them. 👍
Cool, seems there is a big focus on IS mechs rather than catering to the clan losers.
🤣🔥 Love me some Draconis Combine and also Nova Cats. At least for the remainder of 2024 … it’s heavy IS … yes. 👍
And about the biatching i have at least half these in metal , like i own all the Jade Falcon stuff for example , same with 21st Centuri Lancers because i bet someone stuffed up and thats supposed to say Stalker II considering the other mechs in that pack
Good observation on the Stalker. Could totally be.
Geez the negative Nancy's in the comment section , no wonder im banned from US related BattleTech FB pages .......... 52 different boxes and nothing but biatching ......... Like im a Capellan and Nova Cat player mainly basically zero product announced happy as Larry .
Thanks for covering this though is tough to get any BattleTech news here in Australia
Product being on the water doesn’t mean we’ll get the kickstarter soon. I would be surprised if we get it before fourth quarter 2024.
I'm disappointed by the faction themed boxes. What I really wanted was a starter army box for each of the Great Houses. With a full company of Mechs, booklets, maps, and such in the style of the AGoAC box.
Not sure that would be a good idea since the starter boxes should be relatively equal forces to play against each other.
avoid the GW trap... keep the game pieces neutral and allow the players decide what the force will consist of!
Do you know that a Liao box of this kind would not sell as well as a kurita or davion box?
Your idea could only work if all the armies were equally popular... Or if your consumer base is large enough that an unpopular army would sell well enough to justify the expenses.
@@exequielfri1352 they wouldn't have to make the same number of boxes for each faction.
No. Starter boxes should be faction neutral.
CGL screwing over the Capellans and FWL as per usual. Other than the KS fulfillment the onnly other thing i care about is the Big MAC forcepack.
Purple Bird is strong enough to solider on without the love. 😉 I agree though. Would be nice to see the Force Manuals extended out to houses and popular clans. 👍
At least the 21st Centauri can kinda be a Marik box. Also the complete lack of Vehicle boxes over all that battle armor is kinda annoying to me. We got several Vees from the Recognition guides that would be added in as well. Disappointed.
Capellan and Marik stuff will get done , theres like gaps and stuff , it's probably that the Clan and Lyran force books are fairly well advanced where as CC and FWL are probably still to bare bones to announce anything
Bit disappointed Comstar/Wobbie players are only getting Celestials. Sure the Celestials are cool, but we got plenty of mechs for another Level II or two.
I admit to knowing not much of anything about the J era. I've heard there are some really cool Blakist rides though. Still time to baptize me into the Word of Blake I suppose. ;) Got any fave books or stories of the era I should read?
generally speaking, Comstar and WoB should have a force consisting of at least 80% 2750 TRO mechs. potentially thru year 3055. after that, things begin to get murky, with WoB faction spending many years within the FWL.
Would have been nice to see a Grim Reaper, one of their first unique mechs
Looks like my wallet is mostly safe... only one new pack I care about in all that... as I am a follower of the word of blake... I will double down.
I think my wallet is far less safe. I want a lot those DA and ilclan era mechs. 🙃
@@thehobbyhabitlol, well we are all grognards or the kids of gorgnards around here so we don't really touch much past 3060. We will occasionally goof around with the Blake era, but I mostly run my stuff as vanilla ComStar.
Besides even if we do, no one cares about wysiwyg, as long as a the mini is from the right weight bracket, in current year. We have been running proxies since the 80s, i have had a quarter be a Marauder, a penny be a Locust and a nickle be a wolverine, and a dime was an Archer. Yah, ugh I am that old
@@MadMax-el2el penny Locust for the win!
the absolute last thing I want to see... faction specific forces.
that will lead to faction specific rules, benefits and penalties.
(the GW 40k format)
it will wreck the game in the long run!
having quirks and faction 'typical' variants is good, the game has always had these things. but to state 'only force X can use mech X' is a game destroying plan.
You know IWM have been doing faction packs for years, right?
@canislupus3655 yes, but they don't have anything to do with writing the rules of the game. the packs are also just suggested typical units - not the 'only faction X can use them'. which is what they need to avoid.
@bruced648 CGL has already done Comstar and Merc themed force packs. I don't think they're going to be faction locking units or giving factions mandatory special rules, beyond the optional things found in stuff like Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents
I think as long as CGL and the BTech community is helping reinforce that really, "any mech goes", with the exception of limits on production era, we are probably pretty safe here. To me, faction differences add rich flavor. But, it's flavor of our own personal Star/Lance kitchen making. You can choose to follow some of the mech creation guides in the Combat/Force Manuals ... or not ... to make a more typical or atypical mech for the House it covers. I don't think there will ever be any exclusive rules. (Note: I'm pretty biased here as I've got an overly long video on fitting mechs to factions using Master Unit List. I freaking love the factions!)
@thehobbyhabit don't get me wrong. I absolutely support the wide variety of factions and the motivations each brings to the game. I also agree with units most likely encountered within a particular faction.
mostly, it's faction specific rules. that's what I think would damage the game.
Ya'll give money to Catalyst? SMH...