{"id":1248,"date":"2025-09-22T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:56:05","slug":"battletech-online-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Battletech online resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-478\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/btech.png\" alt=\"btech\" width=\"487\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/btech.png 487w, https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/btech-300x38.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a listing of useful websites for the Battletech board game.<\/p>\n<h3>General<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bg.battletech.com\/\">Official site <\/a>&#8211; includes universe information and free downloads.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bg.battletech.com\/forums\/\">Official forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masterunitlist.info\/\">Master unit list<\/a> &#8211; lists availability, factions, in which book to find them, and Alpha Strike cards for all Battletech units.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordsofthebattlefield.com\/\">Lords of the Battlefield<\/a> &#8211; fan-based forum, but appears to be mostly dormant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/megamek.info\/\">MegaMek <\/a>&#8211; computer implementation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/flechs.net\/\">Flechs<\/a> &#8211; Battletech software, including a record sheet program that is also available for Android tablets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 1.17em;\">Universe information<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarna.net\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Battletech Wiki<\/a> &#8211; lots of background information about the Battletech universe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iscs.teamspam.net\/\">Inner Sphere Cartography Society<\/a> &#8211; maps of the Battletech universe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Unit building<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarisskunkwerks.com\/\">Solaris SkunkWerks<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; free mech designer and record sheet generator, comes with database of all designs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bg.battletech.com\/forums\/index.php?topic=1219.0\">Faction assignment &amp; rarity tables<\/a> &#8211; Can be used to build random forces, or simply to find out which &#8216;Mechs are the most common for a given era and faction.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reactorops.com\/build\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reactor Ops<\/a> &#8211; Website for building units with BV calculation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nullg.space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nullg.space<\/a> &#8211; Record sheets, including direct links to all variants of a given &#8216;Mech.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MegaMek\/megameklab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MegaMekLab<\/a> &#8211; &#8216;Mech building software.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mekbay.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mekbay<\/a> &#8211; another force building and record sheet website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Miniatures<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/camospecs.com\/\">Camospecs<\/a> &#8211; official miniatures and paint scheme gallery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ironwindmetals.com\/d\/\">Iron Wind Metals<\/a> &#8211; the official miniature manufacturer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk\/\">Ral Partha <\/a>&#8211; European miniature distributor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fightingpirannhagraphics.com\/\">Fighting Pirannha Graphics<\/a> &#8211; supplier of decals.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/heavygauss.com\/\">Dave Fanjoy&#8217;s Mech Gallery<\/a> &#8211; enormous amount of painted miniatures, including information about the various sculpts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a listing of useful websites for the Battletech board game. General Official site &#8211; includes universe information and free downloads. Official forum. Master unit list &#8211; lists availability, factions, in which book to find them, and Alpha Strike cards for all Battletech units. Lords of the Battlefield &#8211; fan-based forum, but appears to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-1248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gaming","8":"tag-battletech","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/btech.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plKIk-k8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittwer.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}