Thunderbolt IIC
Added 2025-10-07 06:05:12 +0000 UTCHere are the final renders for the Thunderbolt IIC.
It came out looking excellent in my opinion, with Eliza Gibbs handling the 3D modeling task. It's so chunky and sturdy looking.
I was very tempted to make this my main Masters and Minions mech for GenCon this year. It is an extremely hot build though and I feared how quickly it'd get torn up in brawling range. Instead I opted for a Jade Hawk, which managed to dish out roughly 50 damage a turn for 6 turns straight. Dying in a fiery jumpjet abused inferno. A job well done.
I'm looking forward to the first Aces box dropping into retail. The Aces ruleset aside I really like the mech selection in the box, with a lot of fan favorites like the missile spam Bane.
Comments
It's criminal that there was never an assault-class version of the TBolt. I mean, a 70t Clan mech might as well be a middling-weight IS assault, but still. This is gorgeous, and you've done the TBolt IIC justice.
Jarod DePastene
2025-10-10 19:23:07 +0000 UTCThese are questions that needed to be asked 40 years ago when FASA threw that realism out the window haha. At this point rule of cool is locked in. A few of our redesigns add slide rails to retract the weapons or extend the hands, but my attempt to make that more universal have been denied.
Anthony Scroggins
2025-10-09 04:18:01 +0000 UTCI will always like the Thunderbolt, but if the guns are going to stick that far out beyond the hands, you might as well have gun-arms, right? How would he grab or punch anything?
Mike
2025-10-08 02:01:30 +0000 UTC
