09/03/2026
The sudden storm of the season wasn’t enough to stop folks from showing up tonight at Focht’s Network Weekly Wednesday Armored Combat! Multiple games of Classic and Alpha Strike had players dodging hailstones on their way in, and dodging lasers once they arrived!
The game continues next week, and we want you in on the action! Battle-hardened veterans and courageous new hotshots are equally wanted and welcome!
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The Alpha Strike game was a nail-biter of careful positioning as two teams squared off to headhunt a priority unit on the enemy team while protecting their own! Careful use of cover and firing lane control had both teams about evenly matched; but pour one out tonight for newcomer Jayden who had the misfortune of being paired with Jesse Kay who couldn’t roll a hit to save my life all evening. (Seriously, we counted five opportunities I had to do serious damage to a target on FIVES and didn’t land a single one). In the end the Js did manage to cripple their priority target in the final round but at the expense of nearly their entire force. Sigh, that’s BattleTech, baby!
The Classic game meanwhile had two teams of players duking it out while at the mercy of the randomly targeting ultimate weapon of the BattleTech universe: the Prototype Clan Improved Extended Range Re-Engineered Rotary Large Heavy Hyper Binary Bombast Variable Speed Chemical X-Pulse Laser II Turbo. While this time around no one was reckless enough to get blasted by invoking its name incorrectly, it still managed to do a ton of damage. An Atlas got pasted by it and survived but was left wide open for a pair of Gauss slugs that put it down hard. A Dragon also took multiple hits with a surprising number of critical hits, but even that was nothing compared to the poor Spider who went from existing to not in the blink of a quad-linked laser blast. Compared to all that the usual shenanigans like a Phoenix Hawk getting AC/20’d in the face were almost humdrum!
Congratulations this week go to Mike M who won this week’s prize ‘Mech of an Archer! Members of the Wednesday Warriors Mercenary Battalion are eligible to win a prize every week!
We’re playing a weekly casual game currently held at Hairy Tarantula in midtown Toronto and would love to see you there! We’ve got a core crew of fast friends reinforced by casual newcomers who are always welcome to join! All are equally welcome to come and learn or come and show us what they’ve got!
