Nick

random question: I feel like most mecha series are about either basically world wars or cold wars. are there any about like regular-size hot wars, where majority of nations aren't directly involved?

Is, like, Valvrave the only one where the fight is taking place in a small area and the rest of humanity is spectating the conflict (and tweeting about it, lol)

(I'm guessing there's like fifteen different Gundam series that are like this but I just haven't seen. Also arguably Iron Blooded Orphans counts, and I have seen that, but that fits in a different bucket in my head because of the sort of epic narrative structure being about their traveling through so much of the known world.)

It's kind of neat, although I'm terrible at Frozen Synapse type combat mechanics. Also I find it hilariously difficult to prevent my lil robo dudes from walking right each other and keeling over. There's not much content in it, but it's always fun to lego robots together and make things explode.

Mostly it just has me mad again that Harebrained Schemes isn't working on a sequel to Battletech, because Battletech was basically the perfect game for my garbage brain -- it rewarded attention but did not ask much in the way of memory and did not require reflexes. And the writing was genuinely very entertaining and not gross, to boot.

(I'm sure the new HBS game that was just announced, which is basically off-brand Indiana Jones tactics, will be great as well, I just can't get quite as excited about that in terms of the look/feel/story.)

Battletech has an active mod scene; I've been meaning to try one or two of the bigger mods, but they all seem kind of annoying to install and also they're generally focused on hewing close to the lore of the source material, and that doesn't necessarily interest me.