A while back, I mentioned that I had descended into madness with regards to Battletech, and had bought a game set for my friend and his son, and then printed off some 3d terrain to give to them.
Well, my kid pointed out that the trees I had painted were insufficient for the basic maps, and so I needed to print more... and paint them. I threw in a few more buildings and a power generator as an objective.
Then, I thought, well, who wants to play with carboard standees (as nice as they are) when you can have mechs instead? So I printed and primed enough mechs to have a both sides equal sort of battle (which with basic rules would play out pretty strangely). So, I added two locusts, a griffon and a wolverine to go with the ones in the boxed set, and two thunderbolts which took a ton of time, being larger and more complicated figures. I also converted a Phoenix hawk from a misprinted Wasp and painted it up in classic Skull Squadron colors from Robotech (painting the tiny skull and crossbones was a challenge for sure! However my buddy is a Robotech fan so it had to be done (here is a previously published crap picture).
Now, any sensible person would have stopped here, and not you know, printed a ton more stuff for a game they have not really played, and have no regular opponent for. As you know by now, I am not sensible, and mistakes were made... lots of them. More to come.
