Battletech Designs

No one plays Battletech for even a modest length of time before they begin to design and redesign the battlemechs and vehicles in the game. This may be done to create units which have fighting capabilities to match a player's personal style, as an intellectual exercise to see what is possible, or simply to create moderately intelligent designs to replace the garbage FASA creates.

The game designers at FASA regularly turn out new mech designs as part of the many source books written to support the game. Remarkably, most of them are designed poorly. Whether this is a lack of knowledge of how the game actually plays, an intentional desire to create mechs with problems, or just simple stupidity, is unclear, but it is quite obvious.

This section contains numerous battlemech and vehicle designs created by myself and friends. Some of the designs were for fun, some for game use, and some for ongoing campaigns.

Updated 20 June 1999.