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Celebrating the diversity of BattleTech, from LGBTQ+ fans, to autistic and disabled, from people of all demographics, under one fandom 🏳️‍🌈

BattleTech Pride Anthology: https://prideanthology.itch.io/
QueerTech Discord: https://discord.gg/mVehsaKUfh
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BattleTech Community @battletechcomms.bsky.social · Jan 22
BattleTech is us 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
NOTE: Alt text cropped to fit I'm Detocroix. I started this BattleTech Community project in July 2021. Since then I have also organized and edited BattleTech Pride Anthology twice, I have made a lot of queer BattleTech art, if you've seen enamel pins, stickers, charity shirts, or some other BattleTech Pride stuff over the years, you've probably seen something I've made. I just want people to enjoy and feel welcome, I want people to feel safe with this hobby. I don't make stuff for myself, I make things for the queer community, I make neat things *for you*. While what's going on in US doesn't directly affect me yet, I feel you and I fear for you. There's not much I can do, being this far away, I'm even in the Deep Ass Periphery of Europe. Things are going to go worse before it can become better, and I just want you to survive this. Please. Even with all the rot going on, this place is here for you, this hobby is always for you. There's some amazing people who work for CGL who work on this franchise and they care for you too. There's queer communities that are welcoming where you can find solace and escape in, be it QueerTech/Pride Anthology Discord--our little home within home, or Star League. CGL Discord is also strongly moderated. There are places where you can go, and enjoy the hobby without being exposed to the rot. Just Bluesky is infinitely better than any other platform at this point. There are amazing queer community projects coming this year, something to look up to; we're making Pride Anthology this year too, for the third time. Wild-Cat144 is making a comic anthology. Star League is organizing a Pirate Point fanzine. I know there's other projects too, and this year is very much going to be the queerest BattleTech year ever. Outlive your oppressors, that's the best and worst thing you can do to them. We are here for you, every single day, being stupid with BattleMechs. Just don't give up <3 ~Detocroix
battletechcomms.bsky.social
Sledge is live with Bishop Steiner in tow for chatting!
www.twitch.tv/sledgelp
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
battletechcomms.bsky.social
Woo! Last set of playtest rules is up! <3
battletech.bsky.social BattleTech @battletech.bsky.social · 15d
The 4th and final #playtest packet is now out and it is all about #BattleTech missions! Craft easy-to-follow missions with all sorts of variables with these potential, new rules!

Make sure to leave your feedback on the site's feedback form!

bit.ly/Playtest-BT

#update #community
Jump in on the action and check out these playtest rules for BattleTech!
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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weidbrewer.bsky.social
The other light from the #battletechaces is the #LocustIIC. I actually have a pile of these in various formats, so expect more in the future.

#EpsilonGalaxy
#jadefalcon
#battletech
#alphastrike
#miniaturepainting
#painting
#tabletopgaming
#wargaming
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Painting stream is live

Twitch.tv/hobbiets

Charity stream for Bishop Steiner

ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
A Battletech Mauler miniature painted dark blue grey, red, and green
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Jist wrapped up on my Battletech: Aces minis. Went with Jade Falcon Gamma Galaxy #battletech #miniatures
December 2, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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[🐾VTuber ] BATTLETECH Returns!

Heya, it's Freya!

Viewers voted for more tactical action - let's go claim the spoils of war in BATTLETECH!

Rev up those reactors!

Now [🔴 LIVE ] ! Starting soon!

twitch.tv/DigiDoggi
digidoggi.tv/stream.html
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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detocroix.bsky.social
Von Luckner of my BattleTech mercenary company I painted on stream ^^
BattleTech Von Luckner in beige base color, with a thick pink stripe running through it diagonally, and a lighter blue stripe behind the pink stripe, running along with it. The photo is from right side of the tank, showing a bit of the front Different angle of the same Another angle, from left side Top down view of the same tank
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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youtu.be/gfJifhsqc18

The #BlackKnight from The Black Pants Legion is on its way. I know @eldoniousrex.bsky.social, Tex, and the rest of the Legion have poured a huge amount of time and effort into this one. This is definitely going to be WILD.

I can't wait.

#Battletech
THE BLACK KNIGHT TRAILER - TEX TALKS BATTLETECH TRAILER
YouTube video by The Black Pants Legion
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Welcome to the 'Mech Advent Calendar for 2025! Through the month of December I'll be sharing some of my favorite paintjobs from the past year. Let's start with my favorite scheme of the 3025-era Successor Lords: Maximillian Liao's MAD-2R Marauder. #BattleTech #MechAdvent2026
A red Marauder with black and yellow details. A rear view of the red Marauder.
December 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
🕹️ Digital Visions 💿

Super Nintendo visions of the Inner Sphere circa 3027. Herras Ragen seeks vengeance upon the murderous Dark Wing Lance - killers of his family. But to track down the leader of the lance, he'll need info and contacts - and earn his creds as a mercenary mechwarrior.
A crt tv screenie of Battletech's central hub menu, with an imposing seris of blocky towers with green searchlights waving either side of them, all drawn out in pixel art. Four icons for various menu functions can be seen below, one static, one a dinner plate for the bar, GHQ for missions, and mech bay. A screenie of a schematic of a battlemech with various text stats ot the right and a c-bill cost. A gameplay screenie of the battlemech cockpit with a Mode 7 landscape outside and a rendered two-legged mech. Various instruments can be seen below, like radar, damage, weapons, and status of the target. A dialogue screen with a blocky graphic of a man with cyborg eye and half cranium, with a dialogue box about planet names and leads into contracts. A friendly barman.
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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HEY EVERYBODY!!!
We uploaded our first two videos of our #battletech #mechwarrior #rpg #actualplay !
The Fortunate Few is up and running!
@bishopsteiner.bsky.social @battletechcomms.bsky.social @artofbattletech.bsky.social
Please consider checking us out (even though we are very new)
Episode 0 - Rockland Rumble
YouTube video by Fortunate Few
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November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Sledge (@sledgebattletek.bsky.social) is organizing a fundraiser stream to help @bishopsteiner.bsky.social with hospital and ER bills and doing a BattleTech stream over at www.twitch.tv/sledgelp <3

You can donate to Bishop via links on stream or through his Kofi on ko-fi.com/bishopsbeerf...
Buy Bishop's Beer Fund a Coffee
Become a supporter of Bishop's Beer Fund today!
ko-fi.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Hotness! 😻
khealos.bsky.social Khealos's Gaming Table @khealos.bsky.social · Nov 21
Wait - what? MAP SCALE LEOPARD DROPSHIP?

#Battletech
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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runningcritter.bsky.social
I can finally show my Essen loot - Kurita packs, TRO 3025 2 boxes of Gothic and Aces box. Felt bad posting this earlier because Aces was not available to everyone. Now that it will be shipped soon, I will say, you guys are about to have so much fun playing it. It is great!
#battletech
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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From the Timperial Interstellar Military:

Latest tranche of #battletech paintjobs:
A photograph of painted BattleTech minis in four rows, from foreground to background. In the foreground, four hexes of Inner Sphere Standard battle armor: from let to right painted a camouflage green, a deep red-brown, a sort of orange-brown, and blue-turquoise. Second row, left to right, a command vehicle painted in desert (brown with orange splotches and white dots) camouflage with a big satellite dish on it; a mobile surgery vehicle in similar camouflage and a white stripe with red crosses on it for warcrime identification, a Long Tom self-propelled gun in a highly disruptive arctic taiga (red-brown with wavy grey stripes and white slashes) camouflage, and a similarly camouflaged ammunition tender. Third row: oops all missile carriers, so tanky chassis with big box launchers on top. From left to right: a half-blue, half-red LRM carrier (you can tell because the launcher is wider than it is tall); a red SRM carrier with yellow flames painted down the front edges; an orange SRM carrier with mottled red and green camouflage; a black SRM carrier with white and red panels and some white-and-black checkerboarding; a green SRM carrier with blue and yellow panels, also with white-and-green checkerboarding and yellow rows of triangles dancetty style (for you heraldry nerds) along the track skirts; a yellow SRM carrier with blue panels and black dancetty triangles along the side hulls and front of the launcher box; a dark blue SRM carrier with black panels, some white-and-blue checkerboarding, and skull and crossbone insignia; a LRM carrier split into yellow, blue, and orange thirds with little shields painted down the side. Back row: a blue Visigoth aerospace fighter with an orange Garfield dominating the nose, center fuselage, and inboard wings; another grey-blue aerospace fighter with dark-blue wings, canards, and tailfins with silver stripes. Left side detail of the tricolor LRM carrier; the left side is orange and has seven shields painted across the side. From fore to aft: 1. Party per pall inverted gules, azure, and sable fiambriated argent; 2. Party per pale dancetty argent and vert; 3. Party per bend sinister gules and argent, a house gules set sinister base; 4. Party per pale argent, three roundels azure, and sable; 5. Party per fess wavy argent and azure; 6. Argent, chevron vert; 7. Argent, a dragon's head gules erased Right side detail of the tricolor LRM carrier; the left side is yellow and has eight shields painted across the hull. On the side of the box launcher is a equilateral cross with curved hooks that curl up from the horizontal member up towards, but not all the way to, the vertical one; dots lie within the areas formed by the hooks. The shields, from fore to aft: 1. Argent, a pale gules; 2. Argent, a fess indented sable and two roundels azure set nombril; 3. Argent, three roundels gules in a trigon; 4. Party per fess azure and argent; 5. Argent, a saltire sable with roundels vert per quadrant; 6. Gyronny of six, vert and argent; 7. Argent, four bends sinister azure 8. Quartered sable and argent, with [something] argent placed dexter chief and a roundel azure placed dexter base Detail of Visigoth aerospace fighter with Garfield the Cat's orange corpulence covering the nose, center fuselage, and the inboard portions of the wings. He's pointing to the left (right wing), and a white dialogue balloon reports his single word to be "No." His eyes are half-lidded in disinterest and he has a neutral Garfield expression. The base is purple transitioning to turquoise via stippling.
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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HOLY CRAP: New Mechwarrior 5: Clans DLC announced: Wolves of Tukayyid where we play for Natasha Kerensky's Wolf Dragoons against the Com Guards in over 20 missions with 6 new mechs including the NAGA!! mw5clans.com/dlc/wolves-o...
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I read Outfoxed, the latest from @swankmotron.com and Fox Patrol's first standalone novel. It's good, wholesome BattleTech for these trying times. My review on Sarna (slight spoilers if you haven't read it yet!).

www.sarna.net/news/outfoxe...
Outfoxed Review – Fox Patrol Gets Its Villain | Sarna.net
Can Fox Patrol still be BattleTech's Saturday morning cartoon series in the face of real trauma and loss? Find out in Sarna's review!
www.sarna.net
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Arrowpults!
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Shoutout to @battletechcomms.bsky.social for still going strong and being one of the best and most positive accounts out there. Don’t forget to check out the Pride Anthology they’ve been doing for several years prideanthology.itch.io/2025
BattleTech Pride Anthology 2025 by Battletech Pride Anthology
A queer BattleTech fanzine full of Pride
prideanthology.itch.io
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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OMG NEW JUMPJET SYSTEM COMING TO Mechwarrior 5 Clans as a free update alongside the Clan Wolf DLC: THRUST VECTORING OMG
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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This looks absolute pure kick ass 😻
artofbattletech.bsky.social Art of Battletech & Mechwarrior @artofbattletech.bsky.social · Nov 5
OMG NEW JUMPJET SYSTEM COMING TO Mechwarrior 5 Clans as a free update alongside the Clan Wolf DLC: THRUST VECTORING OMG
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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ALL HANDS ON DECK: The Mechwarrior 5: Clans Mod Editor is now publicly available - everyone go get going on the modding! store.epicgames.com/p/mechwarrio...
MechWarrior 5: Clans - Modding Editor for Free - Epic Games Store
Download and play MechWarrior 5: Clans - Modding Editor for FREE at the Epic Games Store. Check for platform availability and play today!
store.epicgames.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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It's a spooky season, and if you ask me, genetically engineered giants wearing a battle suit that can rip mech to shreds are damn scary. Especially if it is middle of the night and they have Summoner mech for a company.
#battletech #artup #mechwarrior #digitalart #scifiart #art #artwork #procreate
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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In the spirit of Spooky Season, the terrifying Black Marauder from Battletech lore~ Inspired by @pancreasnowork.bsky.social 's excellent video on the subject. #battletech #mechwarrior #halloweenart #eldritchmecha #digitalart
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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detocroix.bsky.social
Whether or not you're planning on writing for BattleTech Pride Anthology, you should also join our leftist furry/queer/trans BattleTech discord server called as QueerTech, cuz it's super cool place full of amazing people <3

(Allies are also very much welcome! 😽)

JOIN US! 🦊
discord.gg/mVehsaKUfh
QueerTech Discord invite image reading "Do you like BattleTech, Queer, Furries, Leftists? Cuz that's what you're gonna find on our server. Join Today!" with a queer Magistracy of Canopus icon that has fox ears and a long tail, with a crossover queer trans flag on the background
October 29, 2025 at 3:44 AM