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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 1h

First (real) sortie of Aces Scouring Sands! We decided to come out swinging and assault the Jade Falcons - despite bad luck on our waypoint reveals and losing my Grasshopper (failed the salvage roll by 1!) we took out most of the enemies and earned enough profit to buy a Night Gyr. #battletech

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 16h

#mechtober #battletech 10/8 - Wolf's Dragoons! Finally a unit i have painted! Probably quickest and one of the most fun to paint, as i skip my least favorite tedious step (gray/metallic on joints & etc.) and get right to fun detail work, plus so many Dragoon mechs/variants feel at home in this force

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Mechtober #Battletech 10/7 - Northwind Highlanders! Today I'm putting everyone's favorite un-aging Scottish mercenary Leopard pilot on blast - Ryana from #mechwarrior5! Fun fact from the book The Mercenary Life, was a Highlander pilot with the Northwind Highlanders, an anthology prequel to the game

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#mechtober #battletech 10/6 - Mountain Wolf Battlemechs! A quick Sarna search told me this manufacturer is an Inner Sphere supplier of one of my favorite Clan 'mechs, the Rifleman IIC: which earned my love in MWO, as I'd change two pulse lasers out for ERs and snipe like a coward on big snow maps 🤣

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#mechtober #battletech 10/5 - The Lone Wolves! I haven't been great about reading a lot this year, but anthologies are always a nice smooth way to get back into it. And for today I can share my signed copy of the next anthology on my list, Lone Wolf and Fox! Loved the first Fox Patrol collection

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I also think it has one of the coolest vehicles, with all its articulation. And the Savage Wolf prepaint is such a badass, haven't played with it yet but that's is def on deck to be tabled soon. Most of the Star League packs have been fantastic rosters

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#mechtober #battletech 10/4 - SLDF! I'll use today to share a sleeper hit pack - while the 1st league forcepack I loved the instant I heard "Atlas II", the 3rd Battle Group I became enamored with the Excalibur and Malice as I painted them up and read about them, had to play with 'em immediately!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#Mechtober #Batteltech 10/3 - Videogames! When Wolves of Tukayyid dropped for #Mechwarrior5Clans , stomping around a city in my Warhawk feeling invincible, when a Black Knight 9 (yknow with a SWORD) jumpscares me and shrugs off 4 full alphastrikes - unrecorded was my screaming as I backpedaled 😅

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

also i'm very proud of how my minis from the Aces box came out. And slightly angry because i had such fun painting nasty Jade Falcons...Clan Wolf plot armor for life 🐺 #mechtober

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#mechtober #battletech 10/2 - Alpha Strike Gameplay! This week started Aces Scouring Sands! I'm an AS novice still, but the Aces campaign system has us excited - only did the simulator mission so far (10/10 VP btw, to humble brag). The groupchat is now in deep deliberation building our merc company😂

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a YLW centurion technically (but also yes, courtesy of another FLGS regular 😄 )

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#mechtober #battletech 10/1 - Classic Gameplay! Most recent game from the other week, our LGS campaign system, we raided a water-supply depot of a local warlord. I used a stock Javelin, and despite its fragility, i managed to finish off the kill on two enemies with my sandblasting of SRMS!

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BattleTech @battletech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

/1 Celebrate your love of #BattleTech this October with #MechTober! Each day will have a unique topic based on a weekly theme. We want to see how YOU interact with BattleTech! Screenshots, poems, miniatures, fan art, fan fiction, all of it! #mecha #community #tabletop #wargame

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Not every new 'mech release needs to be a complete revolution. Its a perfect modern update of a classic simple design. Some stuff def needed a lot more changes, but i don't see any reason to make changes for the sake of change. Just played with my Javelin mini the other day and Im all about it!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think it looks a bit dark in the current state, but with some accents/details in brighter colors would probably be dope! Always a believer in "trust the process"

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Mauler baby. Idgaf how crap AC2s are, that thing looks too cool to not love

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intrusive_thoughts_librarian 💭📚 @sgeez.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

RATM Arrest the 🇺🇸 president

Guitar that says arrest the president. From rage at the machine concert. A person in black clothing is holding the Guitar in front of their face

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Khealos's Gaming Table @khealos.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Not my art, but procured from another social media site #Battletech

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

as many said dates are irrelevant but the forcepack itself still supposedly should be this

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Micro Sol and micro set. Easy to find on Amazon even. You can find some YouTube tutorials about how to use them, but it's surprisingly easy to use them. The hard part of decals for me is the dexterity and finesse of working with fine tweezers, not so much the solutions

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Find yourself someone who looks at you the way my cat looks at these pizza rolls

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Secrets of BattleTech @secretsofbattletech.substack.com · 18/01/2026

So. Here's some lousy BattleTech news. (I will not tempt fate by predicting how it'll land in the hobby's "worst news of the year" list.)

secretsofbattletech.substack.com

Goodbye MegaMek?

A disappointing update on one of the BattleTech community's beloved fan projects

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

our GIM's got our quest capes tonight babyyy!! #osrs #runescape

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

my FLGS plays majority SW - id say 80% of the time if not more. Def not a bad suggestion to a new player to try the mose core version of the game out first though. Different strokes for different folks i guess.

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Might just be someone who plays mostly 3025. I don't disagree with the advice - majority of the games i play are Succession Wars/Intro rules. Models like my Grasshopper and Wolverine see plenty more table time than stuff like my Nightsky, and i havent even used my Legionnaire yet.

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

new #Mechwarrior5Clans DLC is great, love my Wolves - but biggest downside for me is the random assignment of mechs available for purchase. Im on the last level and still havent been offered a single Bane to buy. Saw on some other gameplay videos they got different mechs offered than me. I WANT DAKA

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

after the honestly good but flawed BvS, i was getting Lukewarm on DC movies. Suicide Squad was an early nail in the coffin, & i wrote them all off a long time ago now - and haven't felt any regret skipping DC movies since. (i did watch Peacemaker, that's decent at least!)

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

As free time returns to me and i can get back to hobbies, naturally a new one enters the fray - #Gunpla! Only did 1 or 2 ever before, but went to a pop-up #GundamBase, and opened the proverbial floodgates. I think i've done 8 High Grades in the one month since then😁 (Working on a MG now!)

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Crazy #battletech game set up by one of our regulars back around Halloween - we defended a scrapyard as zombie Urbies swarmed! They were assisted by a Charger and their leader - 4 Urbies glued together! (aka an Annihilator 😄). Like any good zombie movie, most of us died, but a few survived and won!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Haven't been as diligent recording pics for BatReps, but have a few from the few #Battletech games i squeezed in over the busy last few months. This one was a super cool map - fighting out a cavern full of Kuritans to extract a defecting scientists. Hunchbacks were scary in that terrain!!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

its just high on the meme-ability scale 😄, but honestly most all variants of the Hunchback are great in tabletop. (Videogames i tend to find myself liking different mech and variants than in tabletop, especially because customization is such a bigger part of them)

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I knew there were shrapnel collections, but i didnt know they made each issue in paperback too! I gotta grab some of them. I always prefer physical media when possible - great collection!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

First free time in a while that I managed to get a campaign #Battletech mission in. Hermes II M did well enough! Even if I took an SRM that knocked my unconscious turn 3 😂.

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Same here. Everyone is welcome in our hobby. Except Capellans

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Plus, this lets me put two vehicles per page for record sheets without losing the reference tables. I mean the TW vehicle record sheets were clearly designed to take up half a page each, felt like a no brainer to minizine the amount of papers to flip thru mid-battle

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

the little chart that most official records sheets make for the bottom of the page is good, but too small for (easy) practical use IMO. Me and a friend blew it up to a full page, added lines and colors to make it more user friendly. its a staple for me using TW vehicles now!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Our LGS we have tried the support rules, and enjoy them to some degree - but have drifted into using the full classic rules more often. Weve even had some vehicle-only games! Its new rules, yes, but overall felt like the same learning curves as 'mechs in classic. Not too bad and worth the time IMO!

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

i typically havent played much past 3067 tech (no problems with it i just like classic 3025), but with that context, I tend towards the 7H for lower BV + survivability (standard engine), or 7K for the Pulse Lasers. 8D has fun tech on it to play with as well.

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If we talking pure stock, griffin has the edge. But overall with variants and picking any era, gotta go with my favorite medium the Wolverine

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Ed "Salami" T @salamitactical.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Ooo blue highlights really pop for me!

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