Narrative Warfare: We Are All Tauriens Now, BattleTech Fans

The word has been heard, and now the news is spreading: go to Harlock for your BattleTech needs.

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— RazörFist (@RAZ0RFIST) August 3, 2022

Moreso than 40K, BTech is easily enjoyed without giving Catalyst a penny. This should be the norm for every single company that dares go this route, and if that somehow means that the business of gaming burns to ash so be it. The business does not matter; the hobby existed before the business, and it will exist after it is gone. The tools now exist to make this a practical and concrete reality worldwide, thanks to high-speed connections, easy desktop publishing, now easy Print On Demand outlets (and, increasingly, tools to use at home).

Good luck pozzing a hobby when there's no money in it, and therefore no clout, but a plethora of readily-available material to access, acquire, and employ to participate nonetheless. Defacto manuals, freely-available 3D sculpt files to use at home, guerilla POD links to buy print copies at-cost (like Basic Fantasy) and more are ready to take the field as an army and make the territory inhospitable to Cultists.

Tabletop gaming doesn't need corporations of any size. If they are unwilling to serve the hobbyist, then they deserve to be destroyed by him; they have no right to exist unless they are fit for purpose.

Go on, put up "FightBot" manuals and technical readouts and 3D mini sculpts. Share those PDFs, and if you really want to commission new art go for it- Tex does and that turned out great so far.

We can cut Catalyst out of our hobby today. That's what too many, especially the Cultists that pozzed GenCon, don't get. We don't need them, we never did, and soon enough they will find out what the real limits of sucking off Blackrock are.