Welcome back! Before I get the next track posted for the Azure Phoenix, I wanted to give an update on things to come!
Campaign 2 starting soon!
This week I plan on starting and posting a second campaign. I’m enjoying the Azure Phoenix so far, and I want to make more! So I’m going to start with a short contract, because I realized that this blog also goes out to people in the Game Cave Gaming Club, and I’d like to have something here to teach Battletech! So I’ll do Hot Spot Zhongshan from the mercenaries box set, it’s nice and short so I can show classic and alpha strike!
How is that a campaign? Well, that contract will lead into a short campaign, which I call, “The Last Days of Darling’s Marshals”. This will go into Patricia Darling’s backstory a little bit, covering her first days as a full fledged mech warrior, then the loss of her family. Depressing I know, but I wanted something neat and concise, as well as have it set up some future plans for the Azure Phoenix Campaign(s). After the hot spot I’ll be running the Succession war chaos campaign supplement. Which will be a nice little slow burn to a grinding end. Though it’ll pay off down the line, I really like what I have planned so far, and I think you will too!
2 Simultaneous Campaigns from now on.
So I plan to have 2 campaigns going together, and the prequel, as we’ll call it, isn’t very long. So I plan on having another one going after the prequel. It’ll be another one based in the past of the Inner Sphere, either the Clan Invasion, or the Blakist Jihad. I’m still narrowing things down, but it’ll focus on some lighter characters doing merc stuff.
Right now I aim to have 2 classic campaigns going, the big difference being that the main Azure Phoenix story will have the new core rules plus battle armor and vehicle rules from total warfare, while the prequel and subsequent historical campaigns using JUST the core rulebook. So I’ll be use Battlefield Support for those. After season one of Azure Phoenix is concluded, both campaigns will be set in the Ilclan era, and be happening in different parts of the Inner Sphere and Periphery. It’s going to be a blast!
As for Alpha Strike, I plan on using it in some places, but for now, it’s not a main focus. That can change of course, so if you want some Alpha Strike gameplay, please let me know and I’ll make it happen more often!
More Consistent Updates
Lastly, I plan on getting one track for each campaign out each week. Work has been nuts recently, since we finally have enough parts to run normally, and they’ve been forcing overtime days, shortening my weekends. I work in an automotive factory, and it’s weird. Anyway, This week has opened up some, so I can play some catchup on games played! I’ve been writing down plans and have all the tracks for season one of Azure Phoenix, and nearly all the OpFors written up, Just getting some paint on the more important mechs for everything!
I’m psyched to get going on all this, so I’ll end things here, and see you in the next track!
