#Battletech total warfare how to

Here’s a quick hint: if you can still see the grain of the wood, then you’ve failed to convince.

Short 2×4 boards with holes gouged out of them and spray-painted gray does NOT look like “cement wall ” it looks like spray-painted 2×4. Going halfway and calling it good only leaves you with terrain that looks like trash do the research, find the right materials for the look you’re after and build decent stuff. I’ve seen multiple players with ‘Mech collections that were “painted” using a colored spray can and calling it a day and whose terrain attempts look pretty bad because they did the same thing.

#Battletech total warfare how to

Though well-written and thorough, I’m going to go ahead and guess that, for most of you reading this, this chapter is almost entirely superfluous: if we’re reading BoLS, we probably already know how to paint not just a miniature, but an army and have at least read on kitbashing our own terrain.īut I’ll go ahead and say it: many BT-strict players could benefit from giving a good, long read and reread of this chapter. There’s also several tutorials on converting vehicles and ‘Mechs (the specific conversion they did for this book was Natasha Kerensky’s Widowmaker variant of the Daishi, and it looks impressive.) and a very brief section on kitbashing terrain.

The weathering on the units, however, is particularly nice. I guess I’ve just never been a fan of white. It seems like an odd choice to “match to cover art” instead of “how to paint to match a regiment ” but it works.

Following the Scenarios chapter is a nice, beefy chapter entitled Painting Miniatures, which not only tells, but shows! (though comprehensive step-by-step descriptions and accompanying pictures they gratifyingly don’t skimp on this stuff) how to paint a ‘Mech, Battle Armor, infantry trooper, and vehicle to match the cover art. Use of BV is presented not here, but in the next book, TechManual. This includes random map rolls and random assignment tables, though it only barely touches on Battle Value construction BV seems to have been moved by Catalyst quite firmly into the “this is thoroughly optional” category. Following these five chapters is a dedicated chapter for creating scenarios and picking forces.