What’s Inside Every Battletech Starter Box? Full Unboxing & Review

Hello my dear friends!

Ready to dive into the world of Battletech? In this video, I’ll be unboxing all four major Battletech starter boxes: the Beginner Box, A Game of Armored Combat Box, the Clan Invasion Box, and the Alpha Strike Box! Whether you're new to the game or a seasoned veteran, I’ll show you everything that comes in each box—mechs, maps, rulebooks, and more! Stick around to see what’s inside and discover which set is right for you.

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[greenjoseph]

Wow… I’ve never felt so called out in an intro in my entire life😂 but seriously this video has answered all the questions that have been rattling around my head! Great work

[joerggering]

Welcome to BattleTech, a ruleset that survived with only minor adjustments from the very beginning. 3025 is actually late Succession War era which ends with the Clan Invasion 25 years later. It's the original BT setting and therefore considered the basic setting & rules. Everything else is usually seen as an extension and pretty much optional.
Bascially the Beginner Box is just that, Game of Armored Combat is the Starter Box, Clan Invasion and the upcoming Merecenaries are expansions and Alpha Strike is a different ruleset altogether which uses the same miniatures and dice. Speaking of miniatures, all the boxes come with nice cardboard stands rpresenting different Mechs. They allow you to play larger and more diverse games than only the miniatures will allow for and have been a staple for BT play since I started in the early 90s (though those were more flimsy than the current ones).

[CrimsonAether]

Love the video, and the new background! I’ve been thinking about getting into BattleTech, and now this might be the video that gets me into it!

[jasons]

I waited to watch this til today (Saturday) because I'm actually painting my 'mechs right now for an escalation league I just joined. I'm hoping to see some 'mechs getting painted up on the channel soon! I could use your tips and tricks!

[voicesoffcamera]

I love the new background ✨ You did a great job as usual!

[jeremiahkool]

Great video Corey, I was wondering about getting into Battletech as it seems an easier entry point than
Warhammer 40K. I may pick up the 2nd box you mentioned.

[tmorton]

Good video! Very enjoyable watch.
We play alpha strike almost exclusively and have not yet used the support cards. We do have the commander's edition of the rulebook, which I highly recommend.
Maybe a painting guide included in the starter?
Do a deal with army painter for a mech paint starter box maybe, if they haven't already done that.
The background is fun, please do a video of the games behind you!
I certainly saw shadows of brimstone, which is one of our favorites!
Subscribed.

[blackguardunlimeted]

new location looks good ! keep it up !

[FrozenThrog]

I have played some battletech over the last year. I really enjoy the modularity of the rules. You can make the game as complex as you want.
The plastic used in battletech miniatures is PVC while multi-part kits that come on sprues are usually PS. I have seen ABS in one case though.
I do wish that battletech came in PS as it is easier to clean up, but it is not a deal breaker.

[VelcroSnake]

Loved the video. I actually prefer Alpha Strike over Classic nowadays, mainly due to time reasons. I have used those cards to play Alpha Strike before, they work great with dry erase markers. Currently I actually print out PDF's of mech cards from the Master Unit List though, since it gives far more options for mech variants (of you look at your two Locust miniatures you'll notice they're actually different variants, as an example), and I can also just load up the PDF on my tablet and mark off the cards with my stylus.

I will recommend if you try Alpha Strike to use the 'optional' damage will rules where you roll 2d6 for each potential point of damage (4 potential damage would be 4x sets of 2d6) instead of just rolling 2d6 to see if you deal 4 damage or 0 damage. It takes a little longer, but makes Alpha Strike feel much more like Classic, like you're shooting multiple weapon systems from your mech and sometimes not all of them are hitting.

[ramonjimenez]

Been Playing BT since the late 80s. Nice to see younger people getting into it. Big fan of the Alpha strike rules.

The writing of BLP is some of the best lore and novel in the BT universe. M.A. Stackpole is a close second. They are the BT setting.
The rest of the writers are pretty much hacks. I don't care about a person's personal politics. Can they write? is the only question i ask.
BTW they separated from him but they are still selling his lore and books and trying to not give him royalties.
if they are dropping him because of his personal views, they need to stop selling his books, novelas, and lore books unless they plan on still paying him.

[NegTharayas]

Great video! I get where you are coming from with the paints in the GAC starter box....but imo it would push the price point too much for people that aren't interested (initially) in painting. The starter paint set from Army Painter is around 35 bucks, and a 100 starter box with just 8 minis would seem a poor value proposition for many people.

That painter set was great (my kids due to priming and speedpaint/contrast paint application, and then I follow after with details, though it does use Army Painters initial speedpaint formula (their speedpaint 2.0 formula behaves differently/better) and their initial war paint line (not the newer fanatical paint line, which is better).

The Mercenaries paintset also just came out, and uses both of the newer paint lines, and has 2x as many paints at 2x the cost, looks good.

The Alphastrike box is great value. 2 Inner sphere lances and 1 clan star, plus cardboard terrain, paper buildings and new rules etc.

The Clan Invasion boxset is a bit awkward - as an expansion with just 5 mechs and 2 points of elementals, it is slightly overpriced perhaps. Giving it a full star (5 stands) of elementals would have improved it considerably at very little additional cost to produce... ($1-2 maybe?). Then you also would have had 2 full stars worth of units to do clan v clan batchalls!

Both the alphastrike and clan invasion boxsets have "supplemental" products. Alphastrike has the counters pack. Which includes mire towns, additional unique tokens, 4 5 and 6th objective markers, more buildings, roads, trees, rulers, bigger explosion finders, and other terrain. $20 or less... it's a great product.

Then there is the Clan Invasion reinforcements box. It's 1-2 cardboard stands of every mech CGL made up through the clan invasion (so mercenaries designs excluded). As well as their record sheets, plus a slew of building/objective tokens, plus a map for Twycross and rules for the diabolis sand storms (and tokens for them). All for 25 bucks... it's a steal. If you don't care about plastic, buy this box and you have mist of the mechs in the universe as standies and record sheets.

Lastly, the newest expansion the Mercenaries box, is amazing. 2 lances plus 4 vehicles, plus cardboard tokens/standees for all infantry and vehicles included in the mercenaries line.

[PsicoZ]

Come location per gli unboxing è meglio questa!

[sep]

Paint is a not such a good idea... lots of things can go wrong with a paint bottle in the box.