Конференция Библиотеки Battletech

FES писал(а):Не разделяю это мнение, кого интересует бред из 32 века, когда можно получить полную инфу по одному из пяти классических домов вселенной.

Art is just powering in for TRO: 3145 Kurita and TRO: 3145 Liao...some amazing work by Plog, Iglesias, Huda, and others. rnb

Sweet! Physical copy of Era Report: 3145 fell on my desk...so fantastic to finally be fully fleshing out this timer period after so long rnb

"I'm impressed; the Kamakiri and her variant (the shi kamakiri) are just BRUTAL. Can't wait to use both in a game. " Ben R.'s twitter

Sketch for BT Wars of The Republic cover in from Alex Iglesias…ughghg…trying to talk Brent into showing off the sketch and his notes rnb

Hey there folks, here's a quick look into my current workload to give you an idea of what's coming down the line. Feel free to ask my any questions, but mind you I might not know the answer or I may not be able to answer—yet.

BattleTech Introductory Box Set: Let me quote Randall, "it's all printed and ready to get on a boat but Chinese New Year shuts all manufacturing down for like 3 weeks. Waiting for them to come back up mid February and get an update on when it'll be on a ship heading to the States!" However, I think it's at the end of February, not mid-February when they reopen.

Field Report 2765: AFFS: This one is so close I can taste it. Just need some minor art, and it's ready for publication. Might have it out by the weekend, but definitely by next week.

Historical: Wars of the Republic: All art is completed and and text is flowed through; we're waiting on one (or more) map(s) for the Victoria War section, and we're finalizing a couple record sheets. With that I should be able to hammer home the layout. A release of next week is possible.
Randall's been posting some art previews for this book via social media (including work-in-progress shots of the cover by Alex Iglesias) You can check it out here.

Alpha Strike Revised Point Value System (Beta): Pretty excited about this one. We'll be releasing a new Alpha Strike PV system to public beta test. It's actually been ready to go for a little over a week or two, I just need to turn it into a presentable PDF. This could happen any time from now until the next week or so.

Handbook House Kurita: It's been on the backburner a while, with the writing complete and awaiting artwork. Happy to say that Randall and Ben have been generating art notes and the cover is already in progress by the talented Jonathan González Gómez/Brother Ostavia). No way I can give an ETA for this one, and there's still tons of work ahead, but it's once again in motion.

Alpha Strike Companion: Another one I'm very excited about (seeing a pattern?), we've got a final (or near final) outline and writing is set to begin shortly. I'll see if perhaps we can post an outline or maybe divulge some of the proposed contents. Cover assigned to Alex Iglesias and he's already turned in some sketches.

Interstellar Operations: Not much to say here except I know Herb has been hard at work on it.

Experimental Technical Readout: Gunslingers: This one is waiting on artwork and then layout. It was unfortunately sidelined for a while but should be back in production soon.

Experimental Technical Readout: Primitives IV: Production on this one has just started. Writing is either complete or nearly complete, Justin Nelson has started the artwork and then it's just record sheets and layout. Can't nail down an ETA just yet.

Era Digest: Dark Ages: This one is just within my radar (actually Herb has a better handle on it), I believe we may be waiting on some rules tweaks, and then record sheets and layout.

We've also got quite a few things in motion or in the planning stages for Alpha Strike support. I'll see what I'm able to discuss.
It may be old news to some, but an Alpha Strike data package was released for Lone Wolf's Army Builder software, thanks to the hard work of Demo Team Agent Jim Williamson.
The Master Unit List now has the option to filter searches with Alpha Strike special abilities. That's huge.

We've also got a fun CamoSpecs project coming up, hope to announce that soon.

Thanks again for all your patience and support!

And now to finish the draft of the mega BT announcement and send out for review so we can post later this week. rnb

FES писал(а):http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160610-will-we-ever-pilot-giant-robots

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If I’m gonna share art for Shadowrun, seems only fair to share some art for an upcoming BattleTech book as well, The Wars of the Republic. Here’s the first of several I’ll float out in the near future.

As of today, I am no longer the Assistant Line Developer for the BattleTech game line. Furthermore, I am no longer pursuing or working on any contracts for the game, or the company that licenses it.