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  • Untitled post 6727

    As our first foray into hosting an Alpha Strike tournament the day was a great success. Our focus was on having some fun games and building the BattleTech community, on both scores I feel we achieved our goals. There were four scenarios on the day, and thought the games were objective based in many cases…

  • Untitled post 6743

    Half way through February and we have already seen plenty of games, smiling faces and a really good atmosphere at Friday night and Saturday afternoon meetings. Everyone attending the last couple of meetings have received their membership cards and name badges. As such there is less need to try and remember someone’s name now. t…

  • Untitled post 6724

    When playing Alpha Strike I see some newer players surprised when they encounter units with TMM of 4, 5 or even 6. The culprits for this are generally lighter fast units, helicopters, WiGEs or stealth units. These can be daunting to deal with and in some cases the solution in an objective game can be…

  • Untitled post 6722

    This post is about unit efficiency and spotting a threat. In teaching others to play they can lack the BattleTech Encyclopaedia imprinted on my brain so these rules of thumb are guidelines I use to make a list or spot a threat. As much as crunching the maths on units is fun there is more…

  • Untitled post 6715

    The NWA is made keen to have an Ogre and play in the NWA Alpha Strike Tournament . The Ogre maybe from an alternative universe but the Battletech universe does have a 175 Super Heavy Tank in the Şoarece. This force is built out of the Inner Sphere Striker force pack with a few 3D…

  • Untitled post 6676

    Welcome to another fantastic year of games and events at NWA! We’ve had our first and well-attended meeting of 2024 at Blackburn, and the three-day Napoleonic extravaganza at the same venue, re-fighting for control of and access to Leipzig in a great game that was simply a fantastic event to take part in or watch.…

  • Untitled post 6632

    Alpha Strike 400 PV Tournament Inner Sphere Combined Arms A 400 PV combined arms force is a viable option in the Alpha Strike Tournament. It just takes a little finesse to build a force within the tournament restrictions. Force Registry Using MUL I have created a 11 unit force with a PV of 400. This…

  • Untitled post 6609

    Alpha Strike 400 PV Tournament Smoke Jaguar Force With the Alpha Strike Tournament just around the corner in early March here is an example 400 PV lists using the Force building rule. Force Registry Using MUL I have created a 10 unit force with a PV of 400. This force fulfils the criteria as follows:…