Art of Battletech & Mechwarrior

The second large piece I illustrated for Big Red's Pheonix Hawk IIC video. He sure loved pitching the complicated paint schemes to me on this one.

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a simple MAD CAT question..... No no no, silly goose. Not THAT Mad Cat..... I mean the MAD-3R Marauder & CPLT-K2 CATapult. The question? If you were in the late 2nd Succession War thru the end of the 3rd Succession War.... which would you rather? The Marauder is far and away the more popular, but hear me out. Despite out-massing the Cat by 10 tons, the two of them are rather similar. -Both are 4/6 movement. -11(ish) tons of Armor. Marauder has a half ton more. Cat arguably has better distribution. -Both rely on twin PPCs for their heavy lifting, and paired Medium Lasers for stuff that gets close. -Both can essentially fire their PPCs in their rear arc. The MAD can also fire it's MLs. Where they differ? -Tertiary Armament: MAD has AC/5, CAT has 2x MGs. Neither will wow you, but one is more useful at range, the other against PBIs. Draw. -Heat endurance. The MAD has a mere 16 SHS, not even enough for both PPCs, the CAT has a massive 20, allowing it heat neutrality with it's PPCs if stationary. Advantage CAT. -Ammo placement. The MAD was 20 shots of completely unpadded ammo in the Left Torso with only 17 pts of armor. ANY crits in the LT and KABLOOEY. The Cat has 200 rds of Nuclear MG Ammo, in it's Center Torso. Which is protected by 24 pts of armor, and 11 slots of crit padding between Engine Gyro and a Heatsink. Advantage: CAT. -Melee. While neither are melee gods, the Marauder does have 10 tons more mass, and lower arm actuators, making it easier for it to hit with it's punches. Advantage: MAD.

When it comes to Logistics, neither are ubiquitous designs, but the Marauder has been built far longer, in far more Nation States than the Catapult, with the catapult flirting with extinction by the 4th Succession War, and the k2 itself BEING extinct between 3020-3033. And if we are using quirks, the Marauder does get a decisive boost, even with it's negative quirks, because of getting Command Mech & Narrow/Low Profile helping it shrug off extra damage. Whereas the poor K2 gets shafted with No/Minimal Arms (making getting back up hard, as well as punching), and for some reason Weak Head Armor (1). That said, I have always found myself leaning into the K2 camp, being such a stan that I accidentally got it made extinct over at the MUL. Why though? Heat sinks, and that damn LT ammo bomb on the Marauder. The CPLT-K2 is simply more durable than the MAD-3R Marauder, quirks be damned. ***NOTE: This is specific to the MAD-3R, by far the most common version of the Marauder. Not your pet minmax custom, or other canon variants. If I had a choice of a MAD-3D instead of the 3R? I take the 3D 11x out of 10. Which would you choose, and why?

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It's 3005

MAD-3R Marauder

or

CPLT-K2 Catapult

Which would you take, and why?

extra details, Pros/cons of each, in the alt.

Linebacker and Incubus in Mechwarrior 5 Clans: Wolves of Tukayyid

A small mod I made a while ago that changes the cockpit glass of Clan mechs in Mecwarrior 5 Mercenaries and Clans to silver or bronze glass reflection rather than the orange look in vanilla

Blood Asp in its classic form modded into Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries, original model by Pawel Czarnecki

Randy Asplund-Faith BattleTech Man O' War (Gargoyle) C Illustration Original Artwork (1996) - currently being auctioned away on Heritage Auctions

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Still sitting under $50 in my acct, Patreon should cover rent, Internet, but not a lot more.

Need to refill some new scripts, get to Colima for my next Neurologist consult, buy catfood, etc.

Still not able to work, any help would be huge thx

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I sometimes wonder how retail and shelfspace felt about them :P As a customer, I loved them and made them feel much more 'holy' when picking one up. Not to mention all the contents that added to the game experience (manuals, keyboard layouts, lore stuff, even registration cards and flyers, etc.)

YouTube video by TheB33F The Most Toxic Strategy in Mechwarrior Online

@th3b33f.bsky.social has a new video up. A painful one for the Clans, who run into the true masters of the universe...

Everyone should check it out.

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Because Carcinization is real.

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Your BattleTech News Round-Up For February, 2026 | Sarna.net Sarna brings you another month of new BattleTech products, incoming game patches, DLC announcements, and so much fan art you'll spew your Timbiqui Dark.

It's February news time! As usual, BattleTech delivers with events, art, and even some new MechWarrior DLC. It's all in Sarna:s news blast!

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I miss video game boxes. They represented years of human effort. They were a thing you made. Not just bits and bytes.

Bullshark in Mechwarrior 5 Merecenaries' Shadow of Kerensky DLC

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Ranna in Mechwarrior 5 Clans Wolves of Tukayyid

Congratulations to you Sean with the big news!

Your BattleTech News Round-Up For February, 2026

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for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed

If you want to 3D print and paint the Lilith statue that I commissioned from LaMazmorraStudio you can grab it on his GumRoad mazmorracustoms.gumroad.com/l/Lilith-Tie...

SLDF Quickdraw by TMC modded into Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries

If you want to 3D print and paint the Lilith statue that I commissioned from LaMazmorraStudio you can grab it on his GumRoad mazmorracustoms.gumroad.com/l/Lilith-Tie...

Ryana in Mechwarrior 5 Mercenaries - Shadow of Kerensky

Amazing stuff

The full piece from Marco Mazzoni for the thumbnail of the #PhoenixHawkIIC, a video going live in 1 hour's time!

Hope you all enjoy.

More art from the video is going to be getting dropped over the coming days too. :)

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Led3d is super talented, go check out his Patreon patreon.com/c/led3d/home

Check out the amazing 3D print and paintjob by LED3D of the classic Summoner inspired by the iconic Steve Venters artwork www.patreon.com/led3d/home

Weirdo showed his love for aerospace with a pair of Vulcan Heavy Fighters, in Hanseatic League colors no less! This was well executed and they look intimidating!

Shadelkan is a rare soul that prefers BattleTech's vehicles over 'Mechs, and with these artillery pieces, it shows! That is a lot of long-range firepower!

einsnullvier loves the scheme freedom they feel in BattleTech and showed off this piratical Jenner IIC alongside some MechWarrior 2 cover 'Mechs! Check them out!

KnighthawkS86 finds that the depth of the lore is their favorite part of BattleTech! With that, they were happy to put together a lance of desert-based mercs for any force!

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I still have some spare prints left, DM me if you want some extra copies. I just need shipping and print costs covered

Photos of the PC big box I made for @webeharebrained.bsky.social's sublime Battletech to complete my collection (cc @mitchgit.bsky.social )