Snooker Commentary by Brian Blessed

 

That BattleTech AI Investigation

Catalyst Game Labs has long been a company that's lowered the barrier to entry for BattleTech. BattleTech has enough barriers to entry. You can download the instructions for play from their website and proxy any kind of physical object (as long as it has a clear front facing) for a BattleMech and go ahead and play. They have free fiction and free scenarios and all kinds of great tools for players.

One of the best tools is the Master Unit List(MUL), a website which lets you look up and select 'mechs for a force. It can be classic battletech or alpha strike, you can search by era and tech base. They made it very easy to select a group of relevant 'mechs and make a force out of them.

A while back, CGL took down the MUL with a promise of "a new and improve site." For those of us who are familiar with how unreliable CGL's BattleTech webpage was or who remembered Magic: the Gathering's similar Gatherer tool's long hiatus, this was not encouraging news.

But on August 13th, a video from CGL dropped announcing the new MUL and going over its features. It was a fairly dry video–and I have to give CGL points on realizing how little charisma their staff has–and they decided to spice it up with some shots of BattleMechs in action. And there their troubles began.

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