Several years ago, when my son was wild about Battletech and Mechwarrior from the Xbox games Mechwarrior and Mechwarrior 2, I threw together some quick and dirty BASH rules for playing my favorite Giant Robots Smash Each Other game. We used BAShtech for Mech engagements, and ther BASH Sci Fi Rules, for the rpg parts. The players were a merc company of a lance and a half plus support, operating in the early years of the Clan invasions. We had great fun for about 8 sessions, then things sort of petered out.

Oh well.

Now, with the announcement of a new Battletech CRPG for PC, Mac, and Linux, it got me thinking about how much fun all that was.

So I thought I would throw the BASHtech Rules up here for any who want to try them out. I tried to keep the same feel as classic Battletech, but with the smoother OS of BASH. Is it perfect? No. But it did work, and it is definitely fun. ENjoy, play around with it. Change it if you want. Even [shudder] tell me what you think, in the comments.

As separate attachments, I have also put a few Datafiles of battlemechs and a pilot or two using BASH Sci Fi, of course].

The Periphery Bandit pilot goes with the Raptor. Bran Hagen goes with the Helspawn. But you can switch things around however you like.

The art is 'Unseen Moon' by the incredible Shimmering Sword.