The next game will be Jan 21st. I will attempt to throw up a schedule for most of the rest of the year ASAP, but coordination will take some time.
Maria and Elessar are both gone this entire weekend, so I should have the chance to catch up on the campaign and move you guys along, time-wise, via story fiction.
If you do NOT have a PC at this time (or your PC has been killed off), you may generate a new PC in the "master PC creation thread"
here. BattleMech allocation rules are going to change slightly (essentially, you'll have access to any non-unique SL BattleMech that's 4/6/4 or faster, instead of 5/8/0 or faster). If you spent character points to choose your own BattleMech and it came with you off of Terra, you still have it. If you spent CP to choose your own battleMech and it didn't come with you off of Terra, you'll be able to choose a new one. If you didn't spend CP to choose a mech, then you'll be assigned one that's 4/6/4 or faster as per the needs of the service. However, with the loss of the Manufacturing facilities for them on Terra, access to Royal BattleMechs is
NOT assured.
Additionally, Steve, I'm currently embroiled in a discussing regarding air-to-ground attack on airborne LAMs. Specifically, regarding attacking the hex the Mech is in with an area-effect weapon, not the Mech itself. That question wasn't answered in my CBT.com question, whereas it's clear that you can't attack the Mech itself. I'll get to you once we've hashed out an answer on whether or not the LAM takes any damage; the example regarding buildings being in the hex as the indicator of a WiGE taking damage from an area-effect attack is not currently seen by myself nor the rules team as a conclusive precedent "for" or "against". I just wanted to keep you in the loop.
BRETT: You may create a new PC as per the character creation rules. Once that character is done and approved, you will recieve a portion of your extant XP to upgrade the PC you've created. It will be a significant portion. It will not be all of it.