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Janette Sauvage loved her job. As a sales rep for Defiance Industries, she got to travel the Inner Sphere, meet new and interesting people, taste local cuisines, and then try to sell them BattleMechs for as much as she could get away with. Her latest stop had her at beautiful Finsterwalde, where she would gamely […] The post Bad ’Mechs – Battle Hawk first appeared on Sarna.net .
The new BattleTech: Starter Box is here! Replacing the Beginner Box and BattleTech Essentials, the Starter Box brings the official BattleTech line into the ilClan era, with two wonderfully modern ’Mechs duking it out on the box. Producing the Kontio in plastic for the first time was certainly enough to get me excited, and I […] The post BattleTech Starter Box Review first appeared on Sarna.net .
We’ve come a long way from the cardboard standees that BattleTech first came with (back when it was called Battledroids). From cardboard to hand-made miniatures carved from modeling clay (check out our interview with Iron Wind Metals for more on how that worked), the modern era now tasks artists with creating three-dimensional digital models of […] The post Giving Depth to BattleTech with Dale…
With the return of Adam Steiner in MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries Chaos Reign DLC, now is probably a good time to remind the BattleTech community of exactly how this distant cousin of Lyran nobility started his career. It wasn’t for being the brilliant military planner who stymied Clan Jade Falcon multiple times during their invasion; it […] The post New 4K Upscales from BattleTech: The Animated…
It’s been a weird month. I’m not sure how else to describe it when you wake up one morning to a scene straight out of Silent Hill, and then have to spend a week indoors with the air purifiers running nonstop because it’s not safe to breathe the outside air. I remember my mother always […] The post Your BattleTech News Round-Up For July, 2026 first appeared on Sarna.net .
Crafting the BattleTech universe has always been a collaborative affair, with the rise of the internet leading to most sourcebooks having dozens of names listed in the credits. Those names were fewer back in the day, and in some sourcebooks, you’d find only a single writer. Often, that writer would turn out to be Chris […] The post Writing BattleTech: Sourcebooks and Stories with Chris Hartford…
Heishi Doug Novikov pulled the trigger, and for the first time since being beset by the Fifth Avalon Hussars, his Rokurokubi’s left-arm autocannon remained silent. It was either jammed, out of ammo, or had simply been damaged by incoming fire. It didn’t matter. What did matter was that it was his only ranged weapon to […] The post Bad ’Mechs – Rokurokubi first appeared on Sarna.net .
As part of the How ‘Mech Games Get Made series, the first interview we have is with the artist Scott Goffman, who gives special insight into the creative and technical decisions for much of the art for MechWarrior 2, as well as never-before-seen design art for the game. For those not familiar with Goffman’s work, […] The post How ’Mech Games Get Made – Article 2: Interview with Scott Goffman,…
This month, I took a weekend off from wedding planning to attend SOBSCon, the premier BattleTech convention held at Torchlight Hobbies and Games in beautiful Burlington, Ontario. The convention went off without a hitch, with fans from all over getting to play in Classic BattleTech tournaments, Aces: Legacy narrative events, or just hang out and […] The post Your BattleTech News Round-Up For June,…
There was a time not so long ago that I thought I was the only queer BattleTech fan. Turns out that was very wrong—there were plenty of queer BattleTech fans, but the public spaces where BattleTech was discussed were eliminating any form of queer representation. That got solved somewhat dramatically a few years ago, and […] The post Community Outreach – Showcasing the Star League Discord first…
