Reply To: Battletech Gothic – early April Fools Day or real?

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The thing with Battlefl.. *eh* Battletech Gothic is that it also requires them to make new minis that have multiple optional parts.

I was under the impression that all plastic Battlemechs were one piece designs, which is why they have these force boxes instead of ‘build your own ‘mech’ boxes.

That’s not something I’d expect them to have the funds for, given that they have multiple kickstarters in various stages of completion.

These guys don’t have GW levels of money that allows them to create new sprues for single use designs just because they can.
And as I said … they lack experience with this type of manufacturing.

Heck, they’re barely able to manage a kickstarter for their main line product that had zero challenges from a technical/production point of view (possible exception that ridiculous complicated book design they added).

I am also not sure if the average Battletech fan is the kind of person who would want an alternate universe variant. It feels like a hard sci fi space opera (if that makes sense?).
‘clan invasion’ sounded like an ‘end times’ kind of deal with not much that could be done to extend the the lore into the future.
A Horus Heresy style ‘early mech’ era is more likely to be something the fans would want to see.
Mutants and other creatures ? nope.

Fictional settings will always be a very hard concept to sell to a new audience.

As a Battletech n00b I may be completely wrong though …

Are there any alternate universe settings by fans out there for Battlemech ?
If so … there’s your clue as to the potential of this new variant.