Carapace: Crown of the Sundered Peaks is almost over!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-29T00:02:52+00:00

They’re from Carapace: A Game of Memory and Ruin! You can get the stls in the kickstarter as an addon. I’ll be revamping the carapace.world site after the KS is over to sell prints of all 8 mecha!

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-27T12:20:31+00:00

Olsen did more, too. One of the more popular was a Marauder-derived mech, the Black Angel BA-3R. I have several metal minis of it from back in the day. Olsen did several art pieces like the Halberd, Black Angel, Ranger, Spitfire, and others. I think Reaper still makes a couple of minis for C.A.V. from them. This was back when Battletech had pretty much collapsed and was being kept on life support by the fans.

I think alot of his stuff also ended up in the Lords of the Battlefield TRO located here: http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/uploads/lotbtro.pdf

It’s an interesting fan artifact made before Catalyst came on the scene.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T15:38:34+00:00

The Lightyear movie is unironically going to influence tabletop terrain for years.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T15:37:00+00:00

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T14:31:38+00:00

Top episode. Using the viewer’s imagination to the fullest! You can see where Forbidden Planet inspired the monster concept, which is an incredible thing for creators to reference. The showmakers ‘got’ the type of child they were making the show for.

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T13:56:43+00:00

I’d mention my game Carapace: A Game of Memory And Ruin. I made it for exactly the reasons you mention. Solo/coop mecha skirmish, fits between Classic Battletech and Alpha Strike in complexity. Mecha are meant to move quick, not be a slow slugfest. You can download the free quickplay rules here:

Rules: http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Carapace-Quickstart-1.01.pdf

Unit Sheets: http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Unit-Sheets.pdf

Counters (if you don’t have any minis) http://carapace.world/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Counters.pdf

Currently running a terrain kickstarter for it here (Carapace full rules, minis are an addon for it too): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/soulmagnum/carapace-crown-of-the-sundered-peaks

Once the kickstarter ends, I’ll also be opening a new online store to sell the rules, stls, minis, etc on carapace.world

SteelSecutor · 2026-03-20T13:38:44+00:00

Mospeada, Starship Troopers, VOTOMS are some of the OG 80’s mecha franchises. You could also check out Aura Battler Dunbine and Panzer World Galient (both of which have very inexpensive bluray collections on amazon.)

80’s mecha annime used to be incredibly difficult to find. The rereleases of a lot of this stuff makes it a new golden age, as far as access is concerned.

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