How to play Battletech in 30 minutes

The guide that I always wanted when learning battletech, quick, dense, and to the point. Enjoy! Editing, miniatures, narration, and script by John Meyer. Art by the battletech community, Catalyst game labs, and Hare Brained Schemes. Music is from BATTLETECH (2018) by Jon Everist: https://joneverist.bandcamp.com/album/battletech-original-soundtrack Thanks to my friends and the battletech community! 0:00 Intro 0:37 History 1:41 Lore 4:07 Getting Started 4:48 PreGame Setup 7:05 Playing a Game 7:13 Initiative Phase 7:48 Movement Phase 8:42 Movement - Walking 9:26 Movement - Running 10:43 Movement - Jumping 11:31 Weapon Attack Phase 12:04 Line of Sight 13:08 Weapon Attacks - Declare 14:25 Weapon Attacks - Resolve 20:00 Damage Effects 20:57 Piloting Skill Rolls 21:32 Physical Attack Phase 22:03 Club Attacks 22:47 Melee Weapons 23:14 Punch Attacks 23:42 Kick Attacks 24:09 Push Attacks 24:40 Charge Attacks 26:13 Death From Above Attacks 27:02 Heat Phase 29:01 End Phase 29:22 Outro Catalyst game labs webstore: https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/ Sarna the battletech wiki: https://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page Tex Talks Battletech: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR5zhFCFVb9Unr7My0Epa_QQQqa388AVh MegaMekLab: https://megamek.org/ Flechs: https://flechs.net/ Renegade HPG: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu6Miar57TTx_nHvSq_U2MA Death From Above Wargaming: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi_xMm_aIho2WrES4ukI_yw Camo Specs Online: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw72skaSLl7jjgsbZVaZ6jw Unit color compendium: https://unitcolorcompendium.com/