There are two primary sources for 3d printed files, one is Thingiverse and the other is Myminifactory. This little guy allows me to print miniatures and mechs that are indistinguishable from an injection molded battlemech. Fast forward a couple of years and I finally bit the bullet and got a Photon Mono. Resin 3d printers were a thing but they were kind of pricy at the time. It did some great terrain for my meager collection of mechs. My first 3d printer was a Prusa Mk2 and it did an amazing job with a lot of things.

Never mind if you had a few supplemental rulebooks and had to calculate artillery and air support. First off you almost never have all the mechs you need, 2nd you had to photocopy dozens of sheets, and lastly you’d get bogged down.

But, as anyone who tried to juggle a dozen units in Battletech… it was a mess. In your mind is a picture of Clan dropships depositing lances of mechs, dozens of them, all duking it out at point blank range on some Federated Suns planet. Except the paper and pencil is gone and I’m printing my own mechs… Battletech is in an entirely new place and it’ll blow you away.īattletech is a game of grandeur. Following a long lapse whilst I whittled away the time in Mechwarrior Online or in the HBS Battletech game, I have finally returned to my gaming roots. Some of my earliest gaming memories are frantically erasing paper mech sheets so I can play another round of Battletech in my grandparents basement.

Battletech 3d print files