01MAY UPDATE: Internet Costs proved prohibitive (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...fan-event-at-gencon2020.1306513/post-26536565). Thus even though I had planned to run this BATTLETECH Multiplayer Event at GENCON2020, this will not now be possible. Also of note, according to yesterday’s announcement from GENCON, this years Event Catalog and Event Registration is delayed. This buys time for GENCON Officials to better assess current moves to reopen States and move toward larger scale Events. Whether such a large Event as GENCON (in past years more than 70,000 participants during the course of the convention had become the norm) is likely to go forward is debatable. Even if it does go forward, ticket holders like my own family will have their own decisions to make and risks to weigh.
ORIGINAL POST: I will be hosting a BATTLETECH Skirmish Event at GENCON2020.
I have hosted BATTLETECH Social Events at GENCON50, but decided that 2020 would be the Year of BATTLETECH for me and that I would take it up a notch for GENCON2020.
[This photo is of our Social Event at Champps in the Indy Fashion Mall... and no, there were only 10 of us there on this day but I couldn’t very well ask the others to step aside for the photo now could I?! : )]
This BATTLETECH Event will be part Single-Player Skirmish Mode and part Multiplayer Skirmish Mode. So even if you can not attend in person, we can coordinate Date/Time matches so you can participate from your very own exotic location!
GENCON2020 Event Registration opens on 17MAY. I intend to be among the first online to secure a table(s) and will look to this thread to help me determine just what we need.
It will be a Bring-Your-Own-Laptop (BYOL) type of event. I am working on ensuring connectivity now. But we will all be around the same table (group of tables) so it really will spark some of that old tabletop feel but with BATTLETECH this time. And don’t worry, if true CBT is your dish, Catalyst will no doubt be offering its famous and now heavily in demand dozens upon dozens of Events and Opportunities to get your CBT Big and Stompy on. : )
I am planning for the Event to have Physical (and I hope Digital!) Prizes along the line of what I offered and @WilliamVonBillhelmHelmet won during the 2018 Valhalla Tournament of Champions.
(Both this print and the above framed print on display at Champps are courtesy of our very accomplished and successful Mech Artist @SpOoKy777 :bow: )
As a matter of fact I have supported SpOoKy777’s Patreon Site for years now and will be looking into the feasibility of commissioning a BATTLETECH2020 Work of Mech Art. I’ve got lots of ideas for such a print but artist availability and the feasibility of a such a commission remain to be determined. (More on this in the months to come, regardless of how it turns out.)
Until / if I should commission a Work of Mech Art, let’s use this particular visual from SpOoKy777 entitled aptly enough “Pirate Hunting”, to help anchor this BATTLETECH2020 Event...
This BATTLETECH2020 Event is currently planned for a single day but can be expanded to a maximum of three days depending on interest and participation.
I hope anyone who is interested in either attending in-person or via BATTLETECH Multiplayer will comment below. I will compile a running list of gamers interested and use this to better plan this year’s Social Event at Champps as well as our BATTLETECH2020 Event.
Especially at this early, early stage, any and all questions, comments and constructive criticisms are welcome.
And as ever, good luck and good BATTLETECH2020 gaming! :bow:
ORIGINAL POST: I will be hosting a BATTLETECH Skirmish Event at GENCON2020.
I have hosted BATTLETECH Social Events at GENCON50, but decided that 2020 would be the Year of BATTLETECH for me and that I would take it up a notch for GENCON2020.
[This photo is of our Social Event at Champps in the Indy Fashion Mall... and no, there were only 10 of us there on this day but I couldn’t very well ask the others to step aside for the photo now could I?! : )]
This BATTLETECH Event will be part Single-Player Skirmish Mode and part Multiplayer Skirmish Mode. So even if you can not attend in person, we can coordinate Date/Time matches so you can participate from your very own exotic location!
GENCON2020 Event Registration opens on 17MAY. I intend to be among the first online to secure a table(s) and will look to this thread to help me determine just what we need.
It will be a Bring-Your-Own-Laptop (BYOL) type of event. I am working on ensuring connectivity now. But we will all be around the same table (group of tables) so it really will spark some of that old tabletop feel but with BATTLETECH this time. And don’t worry, if true CBT is your dish, Catalyst will no doubt be offering its famous and now heavily in demand dozens upon dozens of Events and Opportunities to get your CBT Big and Stompy on. : )
I am planning for the Event to have Physical (and I hope Digital!) Prizes along the line of what I offered and @WilliamVonBillhelmHelmet won during the 2018 Valhalla Tournament of Champions.
(Both this print and the above framed print on display at Champps are courtesy of our very accomplished and successful Mech Artist @SpOoKy777 :bow: )
As a matter of fact I have supported SpOoKy777’s Patreon Site for years now and will be looking into the feasibility of commissioning a BATTLETECH2020 Work of Mech Art. I’ve got lots of ideas for such a print but artist availability and the feasibility of a such a commission remain to be determined. (More on this in the months to come, regardless of how it turns out.)
Until / if I should commission a Work of Mech Art, let’s use this particular visual from SpOoKy777 entitled aptly enough “Pirate Hunting”, to help anchor this BATTLETECH2020 Event...
This BATTLETECH2020 Event is currently planned for a single day but can be expanded to a maximum of three days depending on interest and participation.
I hope anyone who is interested in either attending in-person or via BATTLETECH Multiplayer will comment below. I will compile a running list of gamers interested and use this to better plan this year’s Social Event at Champps as well as our BATTLETECH2020 Event.
Especially at this early, early stage, any and all questions, comments and constructive criticisms are welcome.
And as ever, good luck and good BATTLETECH2020 gaming! :bow:
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