Very cool dice for Battletech

These are aftermarket. The game normally comes with a pair of normal d6's (if you by the boxed set).


I am thinking about getting a couple of sets of these cool movement dice though.

They come from a gaming tip in the Battlemech Manual, that describes a method for tracking what maech has moved how far, and by what method (Walk/Run or Jump).




When I play, we use regular old dice to do pretty much the same thing. We just set the die to the "To-Hit" modifier. In addition, every player gets 12 extra dice. We use them to track our to hit numbers.

So a basic Mechwarrior starts with 4 dice for his gunner skill of 4.



He walked, so add a die.





The target is at medium range for the weapon, so add 2 more dice






The target moved 4 hexes, so add 1 more die.





That's a total of 8 dice, so the attacker needs to roll an 8 or higher on 2d6 to hit the target.

Really speeds up game play.