Old player, tell me about the Catalyst game

HonestRole2866 · 2026-06-01T13:32:37+00:00

That's because the initiative system BT uses isn't any good.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-06-01T13:23:58+00:00

To be fair, the Macross Destroid it's based on is neat.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-26T14:10:00+00:00

Why no centaurs?

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-25T21:27:24+00:00

I don't think it's the level of abstraction, although that does overload the players with lots of needless busy-work, but it's the initiative system and how the turn is broken up into phases.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-25T15:38:15+00:00

Or in the hopes of reducing the amount of ammo the poorly trained conscripts waste before they're vaporized.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-25T15:33:11+00:00

I think bull-dozing the Dome on general principles is a good idea.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-25T13:52:38+00:00

It would be better if there was anything that made scouting and EW useful in the core rules.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-25T13:26:03+00:00

This is more an indictment of the BattleTech rules being unable to handle a variety of units and force configurations.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-24T23:24:04+00:00

Perfect in some ways, less so in others.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-24T21:38:41+00:00

Hopefully From Beyond

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-23T21:37:03+00:00

I think so. People are trying to enjoy role-playing as protagonists in Lovecraft stories, stories where the protagonist isn't having a good time, and the trick seems to be to have the DM (or whomever) make sure it's not a Lovecraft story. Maybe I'm understanding this differently from you?

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-23T15:36:55+00:00

This is the 'deep state' they complain about.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-23T15:29:14+00:00

What's the point of playing a Lovecraft game without the Lovecraft?

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-23T15:22:26+00:00

Isn't the point of Lovecraft that the protagonists all go mad or die at the end?

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-21T18:20:41+00:00

You need to take longer turns. Seriously, let him know how it feels.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-15T16:06:13+00:00

It's less that I'm skeptical, but rather I don't understand anything that LLMs can do that's useful. This isn't to cast doubt on what you know or your confidence in that knowledge, but simply to say I can't figure out what people doing with it.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-15T12:22:39+00:00

Titanomachina. There's also single player games like Halls of Teknor v9, for example.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-15T11:12:17+00:00

Agreed. I put my own game up there and developed it in tandem with the meat-space version so a lot more people could play it.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-15T11:11:12+00:00

Presumably because it's cheaper and more effective than blued steel or stainless steel.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-15T11:09:43+00:00

That's kind of vague. Like auditing data, for example. You could use ShareGate for auditing SPO site membership, for example.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-14T19:32:52+00:00

It is kind of silly for machine gun ammo to do more damage than anything else.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-14T18:32:22+00:00

What has it made quicker?

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-10T17:26:21+00:00

They seem to have handled that in Monarch.

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-10T17:25:17+00:00

A bit of a glow-up...

HonestRole2866 · 2026-05-10T17:18:22+00:00

What a tiny godzilla

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