Complaining about a turn based tactical game just because it's not a high tech simulator pod seems a bit picky.

Battletech is serious business to some people, just a game to other people, and an obsession for other-other people.

Is there a full included mech list somewhere? I doubt there will be many or any I like without serious tweaking but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Tried Mechwarrior online, F2P or better P2W game ;)? A strategy game and an action game are not so much comparable ;)

Never read the books, but I played both the board game and the RPG game.

I always felt that was a strength. Lights had a job, do it. Heavies were for punching. The idea a Wasp could stand up to a Warhammer for example was madness considering mechs effectively had no "rear" with torso turning. Taking out heavies in MW 1 through infinity seemed absurd to me. A condemnation of the AI more than realism in my mind.

I'm NOT asking for the pod, just a port of the arcade game. Battletech has never been turn based strategy to me. Rather Battletech was the first Mech video game to me of it's kind, action based, INCLUDING Japanese product. Battletech predates them all.
While I like Shadowrun I fully recognize a HUGE amount of it is "inspired" by Neuromancer written by Gibson.

Start up a kickstarter to get the Battletech Centers ported to PC & consumer grade VR.
Here's a basic link for you to get started & dig into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleTech_Centers

The books shows you the whole universe around those games, and it's so immersive when you read them all, that playing later the games is a totally new thing. You should try them if you like to read, and they have, in general and in my humble opinion, much more quality than usual Warhammer/40k books, for instance (thank you forever Michael A. Stackpole!!!)

For me it happened like with Warcraft universe once they developed it, but much before this one so i literally grew up with the Battletech universe. I devoured the books, played the board games (Battletech, Aerotech...all that was imported to Spain), the computer games (my first one was Crescent Hawks Inception, imported in english and i began studying english on my own to be able to play it and enjoy it better) and the RPG book game to play along whole Saturdays and Sundays with friends.

Mechwarrior, Mechcommander, etc, etc until Mechwarrior 4 Mercs, that was my last one. I never liked MWO and i was waiting for single player, as the devs originally said. But no SP and no bots, just sales and sales of skins and overpriced mech models during years like a cheap free to play (plus Pay to Win) MMO game. No, thanks.

So here we are, finally another BT game after all these years waiting. I hope this would be the first one of another bunch of games that spread again the popularity of the BT universe around the world. Then, i hope, we will have the luck of seeing some miracles happening: perhaps finally bringing to GOG some of the old games (2nd ever most voted series on petitions) and some reeditions of the novels (and some new translations in Spain of the old books to finally complete the collection)

I am being too much optimistic? I feel like when i was a teenager right now, but BT universe has been to me (and continues to be) my favourite of all fantasy/scify universes with lore, books, games... so i hope you all understand this wall of text :S

Note: at least i think i'm not being off-topic, this all still relates to the Harebrained Schemes game and it is also a big, deep Thank you to Jordan Weisman (among the others who have worked on this brilliant universe along the years).

Note2: please, Jordan, bring us more Stackpole novels pre-Jihad, there is still so much stories to tell...(an extra miracle, why not?!)

Note3: today is my Birthday, so maybe i'm just feeling a bit nostalgic... xD

Yeah, it was really that the AI couldn't match a competent player. I bet you never lost a heavy to a light when the AI was in the light, huh? ;) My complaint with the way the boardgame handled things was just that it took a lot of the tactical opportunity away - you essentially always were going to face your enemy, so nifty design ideas like the backwards-facing lasers in the Battlemaster were trivialized.

Still, I don't disagree with you that heavies should beat lights. I just suppose that over the years I started to wish a few things had been done differently in the boardgame.

Played MWO a bit, it is good, but I am not a big fan of online games on PC (I play much more Online Competitive games on Consoles) and I am not a big fan of freemium models either.