BattleTech: Starter Box

This starter box is excellent. It has everything you need to start playing Battletech right out of the box. It would be nice to have a few more dice but who does not have a few extra D6s laying around the house. The simplified starter rules make it easy to transition into the full game after just a few matches. It comes with enough lore to make you want to explore further if you’d like. And it has 2 awesome minis that look beautiful, and are ready to be painted.

The Hammerhead and Kontio miniatures are very nice; very clean and well defined. The components are good, but aren’t any Alpha Strike cards for the two mechs. As good as it is, if it wasn’t for the Kontio and my desire to have all the ‘mechs, I may have skipped this box and just waited for the Core Box.

This starter box is a nice up to date introduction to Battletech in the 21st. century and with the current game setting of lots of factions to play. You get a nice map with two up to date miniatures in the new slightly larger Catalyst Games Labs scale(CGL). You get two pilot cards (but no Alpha Strike cards!) as well as the simplified mech record sheets that only show armor but not internal structure. Since Alpha Strike is also a simplified version of Battletech, I am somewhat surprised that there were no Alpha Strike cards for the two mechs(although the Hammerhead also appears in one of the Faction packs so that's not a big problem). Overall a good value for the money!