Jesse, Jo, and Scott are talking the new Core Rule Changes! Don't take WolfNet's howl. Half ammo means less bombs. Moving into water - viable but still risky. We have invented ramps! Melee is now a thing again. Gird yourself for girders. Is there such thing as too much melee? Ammo is less dangerous, but is that less fun? Ammo explosions don't matter if you don't get shot. Autocannons - too strong? Did ATMs need a buff? C3 versus ECM, where's the balance?

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Jesse is talking with Paul Clarkson and Josh Derksen about Adepticon! The stuff that was announced and the stuff that is yet to come! Unreleased and barely released products. Paul making enemies - violence scheduled for GenCon! Meeting the team and the Network. A New Challenger Appears - Cru joins the team! Overall impressions and hopes. Some spoilers for the third Aces box, Wrath & Reprisal. The public now knows two of the 'Mechs coming in that one!

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Jesse, Jo, and Avalyn are talking Map-scale versus Mech-scale! Caliburns edge. Small vs Big. Artillery. Turret the weapons? If it's close, are we overtuning it? Different decks can do different things and mixing and matching can have really cool results. Capellans live to die. The laser colours! The Fortress DropShip - "Just one more thing." 3D terrain, is it turning people off? New rules, huh, yeah, what are THEY good for? Well a lot, but it'll trip you up for a bit. The old partial cover rule is a bad rule. Hardcopy books versus PDFs. Too Fast, Too Warfare. Why not just do it right the first time? When should a new 'edition' come out? Tactical Options. IS there a Firestarter protagonist? Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Gaming Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated.

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Jesse and Avalyn are talking With Sean of Sarna.net! The face of the ultimate Memory Core for all of BattleTech gives us the overview of his Blake-like duties and tying it into the greater community at large. And then we dive into the real interesting stuff - objectively correct BattleTech preferences. PPCs. IS XL Engines. Hunchback Orthodoxy. Adorable Dark Age designs. Lousy Dark Age designs. Keeping up with Catalyst. Aces formations (all ENE?!?!?). Metal versus plastic. Getting old.

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Jesse, Jo, and Avalyn are talking character-level fiction. People care about their MechWarriors! How do we get them to do that in game? Avalyn's RPG games are maybe a great thing to reference here. Start with giving them a name. Reward a name, and maybe stack the reward. There need to be stakes. Lineages! Points to a lineage across the ages. But don't tie gameplay rewards to writing. Battle reports, huh, yeah, What are they good for? Hinterlands campaign at Sir-Games-a-Lot, versus walk-up OpFor. A Becker campaign? Water Hazard campaign. Catalyst doesn't seem to prioritize RPGs, they've got bigger fish to fry. Are we (or just Jesse) overthinking things? Check out Avalyn's RPGs, including the hit Beam Saber, here: https://austin-ramsay.itch.io/

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Jesse, Jo, and Scott welcome special guest Big Red 40TECH to the show! The Mariks. It's so hard to be a Marik fan. In a way, they're the Empire. When they aren't just Arthurian Davions. Thomas Marik who is actually Halas - don't forgive him for what he did! Davions, no Omnis, more bullet. Phoenix Hawk IIC, great video, how did it come together? What's making long form content like? Why not a fancy new video for the classic Phoenix Hawk? The Merlin OVER the Phoenix Hawk Jo???? The bankruptcy of the Lyrans is rough on Steiner fans but also the most interesting thing to happen to them. The Last Charge, best Marik book? Nikol Marik fan club. What the hell Andurien!? The Fronc Reaches, the wild west of BattleTech! Nothing is ever pronounced correctly. Not even Hoplite! NATO reporting names.

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Jesse and Jo are talking Project Phoenix - it was a band-aid, but was it good? Jo's too new to remember the backlash. Would it be better if they were whole new units as opposed to 'replacements' for our childhood. Mirrored helmets? Come on! Guys in suits, versus tanks with legs, versus refrigerators. The quality of the art though, versus what it represents. When was the last time your cracked open TRO 3055? The opportunity for new minis, and modular minis. Sign us up!

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Jesse, Avalyn, and Jo are talking BattleMech aerial combat! Hottest Drop! Ease off on jumping TMM? PSRs? Is counting elevation as distance a good mechanic? Cloud templates? Wind direction indicator - a wind vane! Drop the shooting penalty? DFAs - are they just stupid? Jump kicks! Should there be more Mortal Kombat and less WWE? Can DFA become second nature if we just do it more? The math becomes your enemy here. PSA - level your piloting! Is Jesse sometimes a little bit of a jerk? What art do we prefer.

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