A chance interception on Reddit alerted me to this new work-in-progress game mod for TableTop Simulator on the Steam Network. TTS is kind of a virtual reality environment for playing tabletop games. You manually move the pieces, dice and sheets interactively – just using a mouse instead of your hand. I was told by one […]
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New Interactive BattleTech Star Chart
In September, MechFactory released a new and improved iteration of their ISCP, or Inner Sphere Cartography Project. This was announced on their main page which includes an overview of its changes. For more we asked MechFactory’s owner, Pheonix Wolf about the changes: BobTheZombie: How and when did this project get started? Phoenix Wolf: An early […]
Read More →MegaMek Announces Map Editor
On Saturday, August 2, developers for MegaMek released a preliminary version of a map editor feature for MegaMek. This will allow players to edit their maps prior to playing, so that they can play on a map they modified. This highly anticipated feature is in the earliest, debugging stages. MegaMek is a great way to […]
Read More →Interactive BattleTech Star Chart
Once again Reddit has provided a source of fan-based ingenuity and useful content. Cryp71c is in production on a fully interactive Inner Sphere through deep periphery star chart that, among many other things will show political affiliation of each known planet in the BattleTech universe across THIRTY separate time periods. As mind-bogglingly vast as the […]
Read More →My Five Favorite Maps
No matter what units you are using, or where you are playing, or what books you read, every game is played somewhere. You might have a battle without BattleMechs or supplements or Technical Readouts. But you have to play on a map or terrain. Numerous maps were made down through the years for the wargame. […]
Read More →Get Your Map On
I don’t know what it is, but there is something about gaming maps that I just love. I adore collecting maps from various games and having a huge store of maps to use from various locations. It’s a lot of fun to have a nice big collection of maps for a variety of occasions. So […]
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