The mechs of BattleTech will finally fight some proper kaiju in its first-ever spinoff alternate universe; MechWarrior 5's beefy story expansion is out, ... Another era-defining series, ...

BattleTech returns with giant mechs and turn-based tactical battles. Enormous machines fight again in popular fantasy series. by Colin Campbell. Sep 29, 2015, 5:00 PM UTC.

If all of your mechs die in BattleTech, you also don't lose. It's a massive setback, or as game director Mike McCain tells me, "Losing an entire mech is an order of magnitude worse than losing a ...

It’s set during the year 3025 which many consider to be the ‘classic’ era of Battletech. The box comes with a short guide to the different factions that are in power.

Developer Harebrained Schemes announced that BattleTech, the revival of the turn-based mech series, launches April 24 on PC and Mac. A Linux version will come at a later date. Set in the 3025 ...

Regardless of the era of Battletech, what makes the game stand out are the factions involved. They run the gamut from huge galactic royal houses to small mercenary companies .

In BattleTech, turn order is determined by a mech's initiative score, and that is dictated by the weight class of the machine. Light mechs go first, then medium, heavy, and assault mechs go last.

Speaking to Mitch Gitelman at PDXCON last weekend, the BattleTech Game Director and co-founder of Harebrained Schemes, he said, “I don’t even think of it as more Mechs.

As a turn-based tactics game, BattleTech can let its mechs slowly lumber across a river, or weigh them down with eight different oversized weapons that all fire in one enormous firework finale of ...