My Life As A Gamer: Scrombles, A BattleTech Story

I've said previously that Tex and the Black Pants Legion are single-handedly bringing masses of new people to BattleTech, the West's premiere mecha franchise. He, and they, are once against doing what Catalyst Game Labs should be doing but aren't and ought to be getting fat sacks of cash for their efforts from said company. This time you can also add Harebrained Studios to the list of companies being hard-carried by Tex & Company because this is a playthrough of the PC game of the same name and it looks like Tex will go the distance as all the DLC is on the schedule.

BattleTech should be much bigger than it is. Sure, Harmony Gold, blah-blah-blah. I can bag on CGL all day, but it is what it is and I'm not calling the shots. What is good news is that the new starter boxed set is a fantastic New Player acquisition unit to funnel prospects into the property and sort them as their interests compel them. If the tabletop game isn't enough, there's the existing videogames to try (which CGL, eventually, gets a piece of one way or another). There's decades of novels to plow through. (We don't talk about the cartoon or its toys.) And the existing tabletop supplements, along with those out-of-print but available used, have lore aplenty- lore Tex & Company draw deep upon for their videos like those on the Amaris Civil War.

The true irony would be if the property went full-circle and got an anime adaptation. (Which reminds me, folks: watch Fang of the Sun Dougram and you'll see that it's been done before BTech was a thing.) Until then, playthroughs like this will have to do. (Because we do not talk about that cartoon.)

And now he's on the Renegade HPG podcast talking about it.