In which Mike does a bit of shopping, plays a few games, visits a wargames show.

Useful links

• The Events and Directory pages on here.
• The UK BattleTech Discord
• Salute Wargames Show
• The Boardgames Geek page on Encounters: BattleTech
• Jon Hodgson’s Backgrounds books at Handiwork Games
• Geek Villan’s fleece mats
• Uncertain Scenery’s webpage and Discord.
• TabletopGaming issue 90 (sadly, only half my article is free :D)

In which Mike and Stuart Marsh discuss running games at clubs, stores and shows, community building, and decide to leave 3D printing to a future episode.

Useful links

• The Events and Directory pages on here.
• The UK BattleTech Discord.
• Stuart’s blog, Facebook page and Youtube channel
• How to play BattleTech parts 1 and 2
• The UK SouthEast Discord
• Salute Wargames Show (tomorrow as of the date of posting!)

In which MIke gets all nostalgic for 1990’s multi-user BattleTech technology, command-line terminals and online rôle-play.

Useful links:

• The Events and Directory pages on here.
• The UK BattleTech Discord.
• Stuart Marsh’s blog (with Bad Moon Mercenaries events)
• Sarna’s archive directory for BattleTech 3056 MUSE
  • It turns out I was mistaken, and Sarna doesn’t (yet) have an entry for BT 3056, but it does have one for 3025.

Note: I mostly edited this podcast using the AI features of the paid version of Riverside.FM. I have to say it is much quicker than picking out ‘erm’ as a waveform in Audacity, but I’m not 100% happy with its ability to detect silences and match words to audio. You may find a few bits of this a little glitchy, for which I apologise. I’ll probably go back to Audacity for serious editing going forward, but Riverside is excellent for multi-participant recording and large-scale edits with the aid of its transcript feature, so I will continue to use it for that going forward.

In which Mike and guest Andy Dickinson of Leeds Wargames Club attempt to remember when they first met, discuss LAMs, Camospecs, running clubs and shows, as well as upcoming events including Adepticon and the English Nationals. And digress a lot 😀

Useful links:

• Camospecs submissions FAQ
• The English Nationals
• The Events and Directory pages on here

I’ve just upgraded to a paid version of Riverside.FM for my podcasting, so hopefully audio recording, editing and cleanup should be better and less work going forward!

In which Mike attempts to explain The Plan, and runs through some news and upcoming events.

Useful links from the episode:

• All the regular events can be found on the Directory page.
• The upcoming events are on the Events page.
• The UK BattleTech Discord invite link is https://discord.gg/8Qe2fFHEEv – this shouldn’t expire.