Bob's Battletech

Well having got you in the mood , having painted up Grayson Carlyle,  I thought looked a  it lonesome,  so decided why not paint up a Company of Grey Death Legion, I’d already done Clays Rifleman, so why not the rest of the Company from the Helm Campaign as related in the novel ,’ The Price of Glory’ the last novel of the original Trilogy  and the books that got me really interested in the Univese.

As Carlyle’s Marauder had been the base scheme idea I pinched for my own Forlorn Hope Battalion of Knights Mercian.

Biggest problem was getting the mechs , as the Lance boxes were becoming few and far between  even on fleabay, but I dropped lucky when buying some Salvage Boxes from Waylands Forge in Brum  getting , Crusader, Archer, Stinger and Warhammer and another Rifleman.  I picked up another Stinger, Phoenix Hawk  and  Shadow Hawk off ebay, and re-purposed a Griffin from my attempt at Wolf’s Dragoons a year ago. I then brought another starte box (of course I did) for anything left.

So as it stands

Command Lance

Marauder (Carlyle)

Rifleman (McCall)

Shadow Hawk (Kalmar)

Wolverine (Clay)

Fire Lance

Warhammer (Khaled)

Archer (Koga)

Crusader (Bear)

Shadow Hawk ( Sharryl)

Recon Lance

Griffin (De Villier)

Phoenix Hawk (Kent)

Stinger (Blake)

Stinger (Shapely)

So having painted all above thought might be nice to try out Some Alpha Strike using the scenarios from the Battletech Source book.

‘Turning Points Helm.’

This was the campaign were the famous Helm Data Core was found which enabled the Inner Sphere to rediscover some of the lost tech lost during the 3  previous succession wars.