Old Comic Book "Wardroids" Advertisement

I just came across this when perusing an old Batman Comic and thought I would post it.  It's an interesting piece of Wargaming ephemera especially for those of us who got into Battletech.  I think this was the last year that the game whas known as Battledriods, mainly because I bought a copy of Battletech in '85 and this ad was from the same year.

On an interesting note, FASA Games is back!  I hope they get the rights for Battletech back and hopefully they'll start putting out new games as well.

Battletech: Unseen Goodness!

I've been reading a lot of Battletech novels lately causing me to dig through my old B-Tech stuff.  I realized I have some unseen mechs still.  I had lost quite a few of them when I left them with a friend of mine and then he moved away and we lost touch.  But I still have quite a few left, almost enough to paint up the entire Black Widow Company.  I'll get them painted up and put them up as soon as I can.

Another thing I wanted to draw attention to is the awesome work by Insane Kangaroo!  Check out these!

And enjoy this battle between a Steiner Shadowhawk and a Liao Griffin (not really it's from the Dougram animated series).

The Battletech I grew up with!

Growing up in the eighties in Northern Illinois, I discovered a little game called Battltech. Around the time that I entered high school I became friends with some Juniors that also played Battletech. We met at the DeKalb Public Library as often as we could, and would spend hours fighting through various campaigns. We balanced out Battletech with other RPGs like Traveller, Champions, D&D but most of our play time was with Battletech. I look back on these days with very fond memories and I consider this to be my salad days as far as gaming goes.

When I started out playing Battletech around 1985 or so, the mecha were so much better. Now I recognized the mecha as being mostly from Robotech, and I also recognized the models from Robotech Defenders by Revell (but would later discover that they were from a series called Dougram), and a couple from a series called Crusher Joe.

I don't know the whole story but Harmony Gold, who owned the rights to Macross/Robotech sued FASA for using the Mecha. I believe that FASA had bought the rights to use the mecha around the same time that Harmony Gold also bought the rights, but in the end FASA dropped the original line of mechs.

I really liked the original designs, but what can you do. I've still got an older version of the game, but I lost my minis due to leaving them at a friends housed and then he later moved. But anyways, here's my tribute to the original (okay, maybe not original) mechs from Battletech.


ARC - 2R Archer


BLR - 1G Battlemaster (My personal favorite!)


CRD - 3R Crusader


GOL - 1H Goliath


GRF - 1N Griffin


LCT - 1V Locust


LGB - 7Q Longbow


MAD - 3R Marauder


OTT - 7J Ostscout


PXH - 1 Phoenix Hawk


RFL - 3N Rifleman


SCP - 1N Scorpion


SDH-2H Shadowhawk


STG - 3R Stinger


TDR-5S Thunderbolt


WHM - 6R Warhammer


WSP - 1A Wasp


WVR - 6R Wolverine