This section has all of the various phases, and relevant rules for Mech-Scale combat. Rules are organized by each phase, with rules primarily in this order:

• OFFICIAL: Rules as written directly from the Total Warfare book. Take these as “Core” rules.
• OPTIONAL: Rules taken from books other than TW, specifically noted as optional or the like. These rules usually offer extra options, or change how core rules work.
• HOUSE: Rules that have have been house-ruled or home-brewed, usually edits to existing official or optional rules.

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Please note that this section contains changes from official rules, optional rules, or house rules we use. Please refer to the video below, and core rulebooks for how combat works.

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How to play Battletech Beginner video guide

Here is also a helpful guide, directed towards beginners who are playing a standard (non-RPG) game of Battletech. The core roles of battletech here are very good to know, but as detailed below, there are a number of changes from this. Mainly;

• We do not use team based initiative, or “activations” of units regarding teams
• We remove or change certain phases or phase specific actions for the sake of gameplay
• The GM does not use BV directly to create encounters (some may be easier or harder)

https://youtu.be/mJoOH1S5E24

Using Dice Maiden

For rolling dice over discord play-by-post, we use a bot called “Dice Maiden”. This allows players to use text based commands to roll the dice required for playing this game. While the list of commands for Dice Maiden is quite long, there’s only three total variations of dice rolls you need to know for this RPG.

General dice rolling format

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“/roll [Xd6+mods] +/- [All modifiers, separated individually] ! [Comments]”

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First, you call up the bot with “/roll” which should pull up the discord bot within the discord text bot. Then the dice you are requesting rolled, with the number of 6 sided dice noted. There are two specific mods that will be explained. After dice, any and all applied modifiers, separated individually with the appropriate plus or minus for clarity. The exclamation point informs the bot that any text afterwards is a non-command comment that will be amended to the end of the roll. Once this message is sent, the dice bot will roll the dice requested and post the results.

Please note that only the GM is able to delete dice-maiden posts.

Dice Variations