The Second Circuit

Jesse Kay & Focht’s Network

The Second Circuit: A Casual BattleTech Hangout is a chill, low-intensity chat with folks from the Focht's Network Events Team about the world's greatest way do to math on charts that makes big stompy robots shoot at each other. Also sometimes planes. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday morning!

  1. 20 АПР.

    TsC Ep29: BattleTech! In! SPAAAACE!

    Jesse, Scott, and Jo are talking Warships! Jesse likes sc-fi because of big machines that shoot lasers. BattleTech scales well, so let's see what happens at the biggest scale. The Hunters has a cool space battle! Naval assets - using a lot of ECM? Some of the secrets are buried in many old books. The wargaming table could be like a holotank! Please don't mess with electronics if you are untrained, and please don't sue us if you do. Do we lose something not being in 3D? 2D does save a lot of mental load. There is nothing in space. Relatively. Or is there? BattleTech with no terrain sucks. Six-thousand squares!?!?!? The space battle in IKEO wasn't so great. Just one Star Destroyer; is that the golden ratio? Are the Ravens building more warships in the periphery? Is a warship fleet the ultimate weapon? Not if you're looking to actually conquer anything. Clan names, great bands, we'll have to get back to that.  Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Game Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

    1 ч. 9 мин.
  2. 16 МАР.

    TSC Ep24: MechWarrior Stories and the Lineage System

    Jesse, Jo, and Avalyn are talking character-level fiction. People care about their MechWarriors! How do we get them to do that in game? Avalyn's RPG games are maybe a great thing to reference here. Start with giving them a name. Reward a name, and maybe stack the reward. There need to be stakes. Lineages! Points to a lineage across the ages. But don't tie gameplay rewards to writing. Battle reports, huh, yeah, What are they good for? Hinterlands campaign at Sir-Games-a-Lot, versus walk-up OpFor. A Becker campaign? Water Hazard campaign. Catalyst doesn't seem to prioritize RPGs, they've got bigger fish to fry. Are we (or just Jesse) overthinking things?  Check out Avalyn's RPGs, including the hit Beam Saber, here: https://austin-ramsay.itch.io/ Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Gaming Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

    1 ч. 7 мин.
  3. 9 МАР.

    TSC Ep23: Big Red 40TECH and the Free Worlds League

    Jesse, Jo, and Scott welcome special guest Big Red 40TECH to the show! The Mariks. It's so hard to be a Marik fan. In a way, they're the Empire. When they aren't just Arthurian Davions. Thomas Marik who is actually Halas - don't forgive him for what he did! Davions, no Omnis, more bullet. Phoenix Hawk IIC, great video, how did it come together?  What's making long form content like? Why not a fancy new video for the classic Phoenix Hawk? The Merlin OVER the Phoenix Hawk Jo???? The bankruptcy of the Lyrans is rough on Steiner fans but also the most interesting thing to happen to them. The Last Charge, best Marik book? Nikol Marik fan club. What the hell Andurien!? The Fronc Reaches, the wild west of BattleTech! Nothing is ever pronounced correctly. Not even Hoplite! NATO reporting names.  Check out all of Red's cool stuff at his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BigRed40TECH Focht's Network is affiliated with the Catalyst Demo Team and associated with Catalyst Gaming Labs, and is the Events Team for Six Sides of Gaming. However all opinions expressed on this show belong solely to the people expressing them and do not reflect those of any of those entities unless otherwise stated. Come find us and all the other cool things we're doing! Focht Hyperpulse Discord: https://discord.gg/8uNkRGM5Nu Focht's Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fochtsnetwork Six Sides of Gaming YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/sixsidesofgaming BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/fochtsnetwork.bsky.social Theme song 'Spacesynth' by Liborio Conti: https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

    1 ч. 11 мин.

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The Second Circuit: A Casual BattleTech Hangout is a chill, low-intensity chat with folks from the Focht's Network Events Team about the world's greatest way do to math on charts that makes big stompy robots shoot at each other. Also sometimes planes. Stay tuned for new episodes every Monday morning!

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