The Mechbay
Tabletop BattleTech podcast featuring tips and tricks, lance reviews, community spotlights, interviews, and more. Whether you are brand new to the world of BattleTech or a veteran pilot looking to learn a few new tricks we promise there’s something for you. https://linktr.ee/themechbay
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 98 minutes
- Episodes
- 95
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Ep 52: Kickstarter? I hardly knew her!
The Mechbay goes over the BattleTech Mercenaries Kickstarter and all 40+ updates worth noting.
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Ep 51: Adepti-Khan
The Mechbay goes over their time at Adepticon Gaming Convention. 4 days of BattleTech and all that we took away from that.
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Ep 50: HPG Overload and Mail Bag
The Mechbay goes over all their outdated fan mail and questions. See you at Adepticon!
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Ep 49: Can You Smell What The Roc Is Cooking?
The Mechbay goes over ProtoMechs, how they work, how to use them effectively, and how to make people regret taking them.
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Ep 48: What's in a Format?
The Mechbay goes over what is involved in the making and playing of a BattleTech game. What a Format really is, and how every time you play you're building one.
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Ep 47: Year Roundup, MegaMek Tournament, and Hobby Goals
The Mechbay goes over the latest news that escaped the Kickstarter announcement, Josh's time in a MegaMek tournament, and then they close out with hobby goals for 2023.
Greyhound TRO document
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Ep 46: Kickstarter Pre-Launch Breakdown
The Mechbay goes over the new Kickstarter news that dropped yesterday and digest it for you like a bunch of hungry Jade Falcons.
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Ep 45: Alpha Strike Unboxed and Classic Rules in Review
The Mechbay goes over the new Alpha Strike BattleTech Boxset and then brings friend of the show Dan on to talk about what they would change to make the game feel more dense.
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Ep 44: Experimental in the Streets, Introtech in the Sheets
The Mechbay goes over the ugly stepchild of rules levels and talks what the Experimental Rules level actually means for them, their games, and how they approach a fluid ruleset.
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Ep 43: S.P.E.C.I.A.L Little Mechwarriors
The Mechbay goes over what makes you MechWarriors special and what abilities that gives you. They talk SPAs and what works and what really doesn't.
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Ep 42: Southern Assault 2, Alpha Strike Boogaloo
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The Mechbay goes over their time at the Southern Assault 2022 Battletech Tournament by Fortress Miniatures.
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Ep 41: MechForce 2, Rise of MRC.
The Mechbay talks about the inheritor to the mantle of MechForce, The MechCommander Review Circuit with Lord Carbon. We talk about having a ranking system for BattleTech, being a TO for MegaMek tourn…
Ep 40: Hands, Feet, Elbows, Knees, and DFAs
The Mechbay talks about glorious melee combat, going over punches and kicks, DFAs and Hatchets, all the way to the weird and wacky of Solaris VII.
Battletech Event Calendar Doc
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Ep 39: Closing the NOVA Open for Alpha Strike
The Mechbay talks about the NOVA Open Battletech Event. Death Ray Designs put on an Alpha Strike tournament that put Josh and Denham to their breaking points to bring home the Gold and Silver medals.
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Ep 38: Repressing to the Republic
The Mechbay talks about getting started into the Dark Age of BattleTech, ClickyTech, why it is such a hard place for old mechwarriors, and some of the fun things that came out of it.
Greyhound and Mec…
Ep 37: The ABCs of BSPs
The Mechbay talks about using Battlefield Support and how you can use all of the aerospace fighters, artillery, and bombing runs your reactor desires.
Mechbay Mission #2
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Battl…
Ep 36: Haven't Jihad Enough?
The Mechbay talks the controversial Jihad era and focuses on all the new tech they retconned from the Dark Age.
Mechbay Mission #1
SteampunkArena Gator Cards
Go Fund Me for Melissa Noe
Battletech Event C…
Ep 35: Atlantic City Open Overview
The Mechbay talks the Atlantic City Open BattleTech tournament.
Missions, List, Statistics and more.
Closing Arguments Podcast
Atlantic City Open Rules
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Ep 34: Dancing with Wolves for Alpha Strike
The Mechbay talks Alpha Strike and the 350 Fan Ruleset with Wolfnet Radio. Coach, Bloodbath, and Andrew talk the origins of the 350 format, the progression of the ruleset, and the evolution of the Al…
Ep 33: Quirk it, Quirk it Real Good
The Mechbay talks Mech Design Quirks for the tabletop. Battletech always feels better when you can't torso twist or have a bad reputation right?
Battletech Event Calendar Doc
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