What other games have combat most similar to this game? (And please don't reply 'XCOM')

[TokyoDan]

And without a lot of reading between battles.

[كريس]

Divinity original sin 2. The combat is significantly closer to this game than XCOM although it is an RPG.

I'm excited to hear they have just announced a new Divinity tactical game.

[Kelset]

Wasteland 2. RPG aswell.

[Ryuckshe]

The Banner Saga. Hard West. Gorky 17. Ash of Gods.

[Skel1]

Don't laugh, mario vs rabids if you have a switch. Actually a fantastic game.

[Nagumo]

I recommend to take a look at the Turn Based Group at Steam. I have them as favorite in my profile and now and then i take a look at the previews of turn based games.

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/tbtactics

[Thorrr]

Battletech released in 2018 has similar combat mode with mechs. Also has similar campaign and management game play outside the battles, with mechs and pilots upgraded over time using money earned from combat missions. I highly recommend Battletech if you haven't already played it. As of today, Battletech is a more polished and better built game than Mechanicus. Hopefully Mechanicus will catch up soon with some fixes and rework of some design flaws, to take it up a level to where it should be as a high quality game.

Geez I've clocked almost 300 hours on Battletech according to Steam! Didn't realise it was that much. Must be good haha!

[FlippantSausage]

Originally posted by Thorrr:

Battletech released in 2018 has similar combat mode with mechs. Also has similar campaign and management game play outside the battles, with mechs and pilots upgraded over time using money earned from combat missions. I highly recommend Battletech if you haven't already played it. As of today, Battletech is a more polished and better built game than Mechanicus. Hopefully Mechanicus will catch up soon with some fixes and rework of some design flaws, to take it up a level to where it should be as a high quality game.

Geez I've clocked almost 300 hours on Battletech according to Steam! Didn't realise it was that much. Must be good haha!

Battletech is a great game, I really also wanna try the Flashpoints DLC and the Roguetech mod. It really benefits tho from having an established gameplay ruleset as a guide post, and HBS is coming into their own as a maker of this kind of game imo.

[TokyoDan]

HaHa! I've had Battletech since probably the first day it was available on Kickstarter.

[Thorrr]

Originally posted by FlippantSausage:

Originally posted by Thorrr:

Battletech released in 2018 has similar combat mode with mechs. Also has similar campaign and management game play outside the battles, with mechs and pilots upgraded over time using money earned from combat missions. I highly recommend Battletech if you haven't already played it. As of today, Battletech is a more polished and better built game than Mechanicus. Hopefully Mechanicus will catch up soon with some fixes and rework of some design flaws, to take it up a level to where it should be as a high quality game.

Geez I've clocked almost 300 hours on Battletech according to Steam! Didn't realise it was that much. Must be good haha!

Battletech is a great game, I really also wanna try the Flashpoints DLC and the Roguetech mod. It really benefits tho from having an established gameplay ruleset as a guide post, and HBS is coming into their own as a maker of this kind of game imo.

Absolutely. The Flashpoints DLC is worth playing, I've not yet tried any mods.

Don't forget that anything "Warhammer 40,000" is also always developed with creative license from Games Workshop in the context of extensive and long established story literature, including many full length novels, as well as decades of tabletop and computer games with detailed mechanics, rules, units, environments, artwork, etc. dating back to the 1970's. All ready to draw on from Games Workshop. So Battletech and Mechanicus are bascially on par in that area, where they took creative and mechanics cues from those "mega" established games, and adapted an existing story or concept, or created a new one as is the case for both Battletech and Mechanicus (as far as I know), to then integrate with the mechanics and build it all out.

But yes the established material on "tech marines" in Warhammer 40k I believe is limited in game play to units that repair vehicles and other hardware, and in story lines I'm not so sure what's already been done beyond the overall role as keepers of technology. So it seems there's a fair amount of creative "fleshing out" that's been done in Mechanicus, which is one reason it's interesting and new.

[Thorrr]

Originally posted by tokyodan:

HaHa! I've had Battletech since probably the first day it was available on Kickstarter.

Preaching to the choir then. Looking forward to the Urban Warfare expansion. Also hope they do a second full campaign at some point in the future, either as an expansion or second full game. Really enjoyed that campaign with its story line and campaign missions mixed with mercenary missions on the side to build crew and hardware capabilities.

[TokyoDan]

Originally posted by FlippantSausage:

Originally posted by Thorrr:

Battletech released in 2018 has similar combat mode with mechs. Also has similar campaign and management game play outside the battles, with mechs and pilots upgraded over time using money earned from combat missions. I highly recommend Battletech if you haven't already played it. As of today, Battletech is a more polished and better built game than Mechanicus. Hopefully Mechanicus will catch up soon with some fixes and rework of some design flaws, to take it up a level to where it should be as a high quality game.

Geez I've clocked almost 300 hours on Battletech according to Steam! Didn't realise it was that much. Must be good haha!

Battletech is a great game, I really also wanna try the Flashpoints DLC and the Roguetech mod. It really benefits tho from having an established gameplay ruleset as a guide post, and HBS is coming into their own as a maker of this kind of game imo.

What is this Roguetech mod?

[Edmon]

Originally posted by tokyodan:

Originally posted by FlippantSausage:

Battletech is a great game, I really also wanna try the Flashpoints DLC and the Roguetech mod. It really benefits tho from having an established gameplay ruleset as a guide post, and HBS is coming into their own as a maker of this kind of game imo.

What is this Roguetech mod?

A total conversion for the game that adds a lot of content, including clan stuff.

I have a guide to installing it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyw_PRF9Wmg

[FlippantSausage]

Originally posted by tokyodan:

Originally posted by FlippantSausage:

Battletech is a great game, I really also wanna try the Flashpoints DLC and the Roguetech mod. It really benefits tho from having an established gameplay ruleset as a guide post, and HBS is coming into their own as a maker of this kind of game imo.

What is this Roguetech mod?

Its a mod that introduces some roguelike elements, and puts back some of the stuff from the tabletop version that the game left out. Like pirate mechs being um......lovable disasters, and a more hardscrabble day to day kind of thing. Makes the game meaner, in general. Lots of things I found kind of entertaining after I'd gotten the hang of the main game systems and wanted some fun things like random starts.

Edit: Also if turn based strategy in the vein of Advance Wars is your thing I've been eyeing Wargroove up, it looks pretty great if you like that type of game.

[Thorrr]

Originally posted by Edmon:

Originally posted by tokyodan:

What is this Roguetech mod?

A total conversion for the game that adds a lot of content, including clan stuff.

I have a guide to installing it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyw_PRF9Wmg

Awesome thanks for the link. Now to decide when is convenient to get sucked into this game all over again...

[Thorrr]

Originally posted by FlippantSausage:

Originally posted by tokyodan:

What is this Roguetech mod?

Its a mod that introduces some roguelike elements, and puts back some of the stuff from the tabletop version that the game left out. Like pirate mechs being um......lovable disasters, and a more hardscrabble day to day kind of thing. Makes the game meaner, in general. Lots of things I found kind of entertaining after I'd gotten the hang of the main game systems and wanted some fun things like random starts.

Edit: Also if turn based strategy in the vein of Advance Wars is your thing I've been eyeing Wargroove up, it looks pretty great if you like that type of game.

Thanks for the info, sounds good!