Good evening, Mercenaries of the Inner Sphere! If you are reading this post on mercnet then I can only assume you are in the business of metal and mayhem, searching for a home from which to ply your trade. The year is 3008, and demand for our services has never been higher. The Third Succession War, surely to be the last, as were the ones before, has been raging for forty years. Many of you reading this have never known a time when the Inner Sphere was not at war. The Great Houses, fallen so low from glorious heights, know only greed and avarice, striving forever for a future they cannot grasp. But they don't have a monopoly on greed and avarice, now do they? Their misfortune is our opportunity, as we all know what happens to a fool and his fortune. If you want to take from them as they've taken from you, if you've the stones to fire a weapon in anger and to grin when it is returned tenfold, then there is no recourse but to join us. Join us, who seek succor from the point of a blade. So, I say, come one and all! Come ye dogs of war, ye who know naught but slaughter! Come ye broken and battered, ye with wounds to share! Come ye bearing grievance against all, ye with hatred in thine heart! There is work to be done. - Jacques Gerard, Commander Gerard's Jaguars, MRB # 3384 This is a Battletech RPG campaign in which you, a mercenary battlemech pilot, will find honor, fortune, glory, and death on the field of someone else's battle. I am looking for at least two individuals to add to the team, as we lost a lot of our initial recruits in scheduling-related accidents. We will be using MegaMek as the virtual tabletop for Battletech battles, using the Battletech Wargame rules for 'mech combat. Any dismount operations, likely few and far between, will use GURPS 4e and Roll20. Experience with either system is not necessary. We will be using Discord for additional roleplaying throughout the week between sessions, both for bringing the characters and the unit to life, and to increase the amount of combat time available during the weekly session. I would like to recruit players who would enjoy this extra chance to interact with their character and others, rather than those who would find it bothersome. There are three potential time slots for this game: 6 am to 10 am GMT-5, either on Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday. When responding to this thread or sending a DM, please indicate which of these slots you are available for. You can find more information on the expectations for the campaign in my previous post, found here . Quick update: There are two additional time slots that may work if everyone is finding the 6 am start too early. The two possible slots are 5 pm to 9 pm CDT GMT-5, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
