anyway.

I *heart* colored dice rules.

And the colors matter! This rule really adds to the strategy of the game.

I'm not sure I grok the purpose of having both rule #3 and the second half of rule #5.

That is I can see why from a game balancing perspective you might want to discard the yellow die after use even though from a simmy angle and a fun blast the hell out of 'em strategy leaving the die out there to be used by any one would be kinda cool (i.e. the target is painted and lit up like a christmas tree thanks to that yellow 6.  everybody unload on him).

But then I don't see why you need rule three to make sure there is only 1 yellow die out there.

Why not just let however many yellow dice there are just remain there?  As they get used they get discarded but this way you could possibly have several spots on the same mech.

To me this would be be balanced by the the fact that of the multiple yellow dice the low ones quite likely aren't going to be useful anyway, so only sometimes would you have several high yellows to get used.  And working out maneuvers with your mechs to be able to effectively take advantage of such an event (or be tempted into doing something foolish in order to take advantage of such an event) seems to be tactically interesting.

A yellow die is basically just a reroll for somebody elses red die (if I understand rule #2 it can't be a reroll for your own red die because it happens after you fire), but its not a red die itself so the advantage of having a tactically flexible yellow die is balanced by the fact that you're not really increasing the maximum damage you can do.

The reason you discard lower yellow dice is: otherwise they clutter up the table.

The reason you discard the yellow die when you use it is: your defense roll already stands for the whole turn (and must). I don't want your defense roll and everybody's attack roll on you BOTH to stand for the whole turn.

That's why!

The pile of yellow dice on one particular turn (a bunch of 2s, 3s, and 4s, if I recall, and I kept getting 4+ attack rolls) was getting really unwieldy. Since they go away next turn anyway, it's pretty valueless to do that ??? there are only so many things you can do in a turn anyway.

Trading up the yellow dice is important because multiple yellow dice would pretty much make defense impossible. Sensors would be overwhelmingly cheap for their effectiveness. It makes fictional sense, but I think they would be the best dice to have, and that's not what the game's about. I prefer it to be something you invest in strategically, rather than an obvious choice.

Okay, I'm missing something. What is the advantage sensors have over weapons? Why roll a bunch of dice to try and get a lock for someone else to shoot, rather than load out the mech with a big gun for the added firepower?

Help me understand.

Matt: you can roll at most two red dice at a time. Yellow dice can give you sort of a third and fourth.

It makes sense if you're planning to concentrate fire. Each of J's four mechs rolled two red and one yellow - instead of 8 red dice all together, they were rolling sort of 12, and effectively 10 or 11.

Naturally you're trading off, though. Does armor or bookin' it make more sense to you? Take blue or green dice instead!

Check out these yellow dice!

Does spotting trigger "target acts?"

Rule 3! You don't need a defense number for your spotting target, so they don't get to go now.

Another use for Yellows: they have a range but don't prevent you from getting a green d8 for not having ranged weapons. Very excellent for scouts: two green d6s (say) plus a d8, plus yellow dice that allow him to act as an artillery spotter. That means he can still move superfast to do scouty stuff (grabbing vaporators from behind enemy lines, diverting attention, and spotting), and still has (limited) combat options (h2h in a pinch, yellow dice calling down the lightning).

I decided to give my Scout three Big Missiles (which don't count for initiative purposes) and no red dice. It had arms and legs, so it could fight with Whites if it needed to, but the thing was about speed (theoretically; if I recall, I think I gave it too many dice anyway, so initiative got buggered.)

Also, next game, I want to introduce some story elements ?? la Roroga. That means building non-vaporator goals: little trucks, crashed satellites, that kind of thing. Part of the fun of Battletech was, for me, the fiction we made up to go with the fighting. It seems like we can get pretty close to making sleek little bits of fiction for and with this. I think that's why I want campaign rules, by the way.

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