Urban Warfare adds new urban landscapes which are fully destructible and new enemy vehicles.
New mechs include the Hatchetman, Crab and Cyclops. Flashpoint adds new branching short stories to link together mercenary missions. BattleTech shows why adapting board games takes more than copying the rules. With enough firepower, you can literally level the playing field with just a bit of high explosive and elbow grease. Since Battletech has been released there have been three new expansions packs, Flashpoint, Urban Warfare and Heavy Metal. The mechs of BattleTech - Flashpoint: the blade, the brain, and the beast. The same is true if an enemy is using the urban sprawl for cover. A scout mech that takes a fall from 30 stories because an enemy Colossus decided he wasn’t a fan of that particular city block is going to be a bit worse for wear, and totally exposed as a result. Missed shots now hit objects behind your intended target, and you can target buildings directly. This tactic does present its own risks, however, since just about everything is destructible. Long-term, Id love to see more vibrancy from BattleTech - wilder planets, more colourful mechs and special attacks, grimier, punchier characters - but I suspect. I found this to be a very powerful scouting ability as well, allowing me to take up a position on a well-placed tower and spot for my indirect fire mechs without putting any of my MechWarriors in too much danger. Flashpoint is fine expansion in terms of re-engineering BattleTech for extended play, then - far better than kicking us into another pit of mega-story or necessitating a new beginning. Using their speed to set up very narrow firing lines and then darting back into safety can be very powerful, especially with accurate, long-ranged weaponry.Īnd if you’ve got jump jets, even more new possibilities open up since you can jet up to the roof of most buildings to rain death from on high.
I found the widespread availability of cover and sight blockers to be a boon to lighter mechs, especially. This creates some niches for lance compositions that aren’t especially viable in BattleTech’s other environs. The maps are a good mix of terrain types, with crowded streets and skyscrapers broken up by open plazas and city parks that make sure you have some options if street-to-street brawling and gunslinging isn’t your style. The metropolitan environments in Urban Warfare are well-designed and present novel tactical challenges.
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