BattleTech Box Sets To Be Debuted At GenCon 2018

Box Sets

courtesy of Catalyst Game Labs

Last March we got a sneak preview of the new BattleTech box sets that were set to come out later this year. A beginner box for $19.99 and a full-set box for $59.99, with both boxes filled to their respective brims with brand new miniatures, maps, and even a delightful new short story.

We had plenty of details, but we never received a date. We were left to wonder when–oh when!–our fair lady would finally arrive. Well, wonder no longer.

As updated on the Catalyst Game Labs news page, BattleTech Beginner Box Set and A Game Of Armored Combat will debut at this year’s GenCon.

The store release will still have to wait a bit, sadly. Wider release at your local neighborhood miniatures and game shop will follow “soon” after GenCon, but we don’t have specific dates. Here’s hoping they’re already in transit and just waiting to be loaded off the trucks.

As a quick reminder, the Beginner Box Set comes with two–count ‘em, TWO–all new miniatures: the Steiner favorite Griffin and the much more widely used Wolverine. The full-sized Game Of Armored Combat comes with eight new miniatures: the Awesome, BattleMaster, Catapult, Commando, Locust, Shadow Hawk, Thunderbolt, and previously mentioned Wolverine.

Classic Art

Both box sets come with an all-new, never-before-seen 48-page novella from William H. Keith detailing the saga of Carlyle’s Commandos and how their surviving members eventually formed the core of what would become the Gray Death Legion.

On top of that momentous news, Catalyst has also revealed new vintage cover art for their hotly anticipated rulebook reprints. Classic art from 1987 and 1994 will adorn the faces of BattleTech: Total Warfare, BattleTech: TechManual, BattleTech: Tactical Operations, and BattleTech: Strategic Operations, available now for $15 in .pdf format. See if you can spot the original books where these iconic pieces were taken from.

GenCon is set to begin August 2nd, so it won’t be long before we finally get to see these box sets in the flesh. Or rather, paper with a bit of plastic. Whatever.

And as always, MechWarriors: Stay Syrupy.

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Hooked on BattleTech at an early age, Sean honestly can't remember whether it was the cartoon, the serial novels or the short-lived TCG that did him in. Whatever it was, his passion for giant shooty robots never died, so now he writes about the latest and greatest in 'Mech related news.

3 thoughts on “BattleTech Box Sets To Be Debuted At GenCon 2018

  1. Cooney

    I hope they release more sets of these classic mechs. Like many players I prefer the Succession Wars Era. Perhaps now that Harmony Gold lost that court case we can get the re-sculpt Warhammer, and Marauder miniatures shown at Gencon in 2016. I just hope they’ll ‘keep scale’ with the box mechs for all new miniatures. A Dervish re-sculpt that would be a size match with the other 55 ton minis for example. Some other wants being the standard tech Kurita Charger-1A9 and Davion Jagermech-6A, two variants of minis I’d love to see included in the line.

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  2. CF

    I initially read the headline as “_BattleTech_ Sex Bots The Be Debuted At Gen Con 2018”.

    I thought: “*THAT* ‘ll put the preorder figures up….” :)

    (Hey — at least I finally gets my _Shadow Hawk_ back.)

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