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Tim Skirvin

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Sep 24, 2007, 12:13:59 AM9/24/07
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Does anybody have a list of changes in the most recent version of
Classic BattleTech? I just played for the first time in a long time
today, and was thrown off by a few major rule changes (the new partial-
cover rules, for instance); what else have I missed?

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Tobias Wittwer

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Sep 24, 2007, 4:42:04 AM9/24/07
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Am Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:13:59 -0500 schrieb Tim Skirvin:

> Does anybody have a list of changes in the most recent version of
> Classic BattleTech? I just played for the first time in a long time
> today, and was thrown off by a few major rule changes (the new partial-
> cover rules, for instance); what else have I missed?

The Lords of the Battlefield forum has a topic that summarises the
changes:
http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25852

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David Damerell

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Sep 24, 2007, 9:33:14 AM9/24/07
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Quoting Tim Skirvin <tski...@killfile.org>:
> Does anybody have a list of changes in the most recent version of
>Classic BattleTech? I just played for the first time in a long time
>today, and was thrown off by a few major rule changes (the new partial-
>cover rules, for instance); what else have I missed?

The new Partial Cover rule is essentially the same fix I proposed in my
first post to Usenet in 1993. :-)

I do wonder if the +5 and +6 movement to-hit penalties and the changed
VTOL tables will make the attack of the killer bees still more lethal.
Generally I'm glad to see vehicles don't get quite so lousy a deal,
though.
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Tim Skirvin

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Sep 25, 2007, 3:57:59 PM9/25/07
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Tobias Wittwer <ju...@tplusplus.de> writes:

>> Does anybody have a list of changes in the most recent version of
>> Classic BattleTech? I just played for the first time in a long time
>> today, and was thrown off by a few major rule changes (the new partial-
>> cover rules, for instance); what else have I missed?

> The Lords of the Battlefield forum has a topic that summarises the
> changes:
> http://www.lordsofthebattlefield.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25852

That'd be what I was looking for, thanks.

Have I mentioned how much fun it was to play again? It had been
too long, but it was satisfying being able to rattle off the hit location
tables...

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