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What if there were Mechs on Juno beach? | Community organizers of #Battletech games and tournaments in #Burlington #ON | Table top map making | Scenario creation | Opinionated, neurospicy, 🏳️‍🌈 +ve nerds |
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July 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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#OpJuno 2025 was a resounding success! We're pooped, my brain is not functioning. I'll post some pics and feedback as time passes.
For now, a Courseulles-sur-mer map with its terrain, all set up and waiting for players to arrive. :)
Table set up for a custom game of Battletech. There's a detailed map on the table, some 3d printed terrain (sea walls, dragon's teeth, hedgehogs, buildings, objective markers), a box with dice.
June 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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The event is on tomorrow!! A taste of the Hero Cards I spent all day today laying out in #Scribus 🙏 You guys saved my ass!
Battletech-style Hero Card representing a real historical individual. The image attached to the text depicts the actual Private Schulz cooking a roast in a pot. It reads: R.B. Schulz Rank: Private Affiliation: Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Unit: Régiment de la Chaudière In the hedgerow−choked combat zones of Normandy‚ Private R.B. Schulz brought more than supplies−he brought morale. A trained RCASC cook embedded with the Régiment de la Chaudière‚ Schulz must have become a frontline legend when‚ on June 24th‚ 1944‚ he served the unit its first real meat since the invasion. Roast−hot‚ fresh‚ and far from the standard rations−was more than just food. It was comfort‚ sustenance and evidence that someone in the rear echelons knew what the army marches on. The RCASC Catering Wing‚ formalized in 1942‚ had elevated cooks from reluctant riflemen to specialists. Schulz embodied this transformation; not just a cook‚ but a force multiplier. Special Pilot Abilities (narrative‚ not text based): Morale Beacon; Once per mission‚ this pilot may give 1 point to an allied unit‚ representing boosted morale and renewed resolve. No mechanical precedent; purely narrative. ″First meat outside of compo rations since entering battle.″
June 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Working on the text for #battletech Hero Cards for Canadian WWII Juno Beach landing participants.
#Battletech style hero card, with an Operation Neptune (D-Day) theme. Top has spaces for piloting ability and gunnery score as well as the pilot name. The rest of the card consists of category names (Rank, affiliation, unit, BattleMech, Special Pilot Abilities) and empty space for text. The background image is a WWII Operation Neptune graphic of the Greek god Poseidon (Roman Neptune) holding a trident in one hand, cradling a tank with the other, with long hair and a flowing beard, wearing a crown on his head. His trident holding arm is poised to strike, he has a frown on his face and is wearing a crown. The art style of the image is mid-1940s cartoon style.
June 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Entering the final push for donations to #WoundedWarriors, donate to enter a raffle for the laptop! We will aim to livestream the draw for transparency on June 7th, at the end of the tournament. Pls note, we can't ship the laptop outside Canada :(
tinyurl.com/OpJuno
#mentalhealth #battletech
Image of a silvery HP laptop on top of its cardboard box, the words "Envy | Audio by Bang & Olufsen" can be seen on the box. Side view of the same laptop and box as in the previous image. Open laptop, showing a Windows desktop screen. The sitckers on the laptop case are visible, one showing "Intel evo" text and logo and the other "HP ENVY x360 Laptop" with some icons and a QR code. Side view of the laptop in the previous image.
June 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Getting the terrain together for #opjuno - churches for Graye and StAubin, AC10s, Medium Laser turrets and objective markers.
Miniatures for a tabletop war game, a group of grey bunker-like structures mounted on low hexagons with modellers grass around them, two model churches in the background, a group of turret-like structures on low hexagonal bases and three objective markers in yellow with "alpha, bravo, Charlie" written on them.
May 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Aw, cool, Hinterlands! One of the guys at our local store is running a Hinterlands campaign. I made him a poster for it. I made it look like the mech is giving thumbs up, like the pfp of the dude running the game.
April 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Last November, #OpJuno players reading their mission briefs
#battletech
April 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We got to experimenting with #AlphaStrike versions of our #battletech maps for upcoming #OpJuno. This still needs some refinement.
A map for a game of Battletech, Alpha Strike version showing an aerial view of a beach, with about 1/4 of it sea, in the upper portion of the image and the rest of it beach and farmland. There is a small town in the lower right and mid-left of the image, with some forest cover on the far left of the image. There are medium laser emplacements along the beach, 4 of them, roughly spaced equidistantly from each other. The towns have images of buildings in them, there are representations of Dragons' Teeth and Rommel's Asparagus (anti-tank and anti-personnel defenses, respectively) on the beach and there is a network of roads joining various portions of the map features to each other, mirroring the local roads in existence in 1944.
April 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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OpJuno 2024 - Project Development photos
How to get your mechs on the beach?
A group of battlemechs photographed from behind, landing on a beach map. One mech is standing in a landing craft. Opposing them on the shore is a group of 2 mechs supported by an AC10 gun emplacement and two medium laser turrets. A group of infantry can be seen on the beach as well. A landing craft used for landing mechs on the beach, made to resemble the actual landing craft used during WWII and painted in water cammo. two medium lasers and an AC10 bunker as well as some buildings can be seen in the background. Two forces facing off against each other on the shore of Juno beach.
April 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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💈Sponsor Spotlight: Henri et Victoria🪒💈
The lovely folks at #HenrietVictoria are all about #RasageTraditionel (that's traditional shaving, learn your French!) so that you can be well #groomed and feel great when you melt mechs on the field.
www.instagram.com/henrietvicto...
www.henrietvictoria.com
A shaving kit in a cardboard box, on a battletech map, surrounded by mechs and world war II photographs. The cardboard box has a shaving cream, brush, aftershave balm and beard oil it in and the products are nestled in crinkled paper. The text on the box reads "Handmade in Canada. Henri et Victoria | Rasage traditionel. Fabriquè à la main au Canada"
April 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🎖️Sponsor Spotlight: Northern Lights Terrain
We're thrilled!
Their Canadian-crafted, laser-cut terrain brings authenticity and depth to our #tabletop battles, honouring our nation's rich history on Juno Beach and supporting #mental_health initiatives!
northernlightsterrain.com
#woundedwarriorscanada
April 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Clan Sodor TO&E - what better way to indoctri (ahem) introduce your younglings to #battletech!
5 Alpha Strike cards for playing characters from Thomas the Tank Engine as Battlemechs
April 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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We can't forget Sir Topham Hatt the Protomech (Dec. 2024) #battletech ?
Miniature of Sir Topham Hatt with rocket launchers on his shoulders. There are three battlemechs standing around him, but you can only see their legs.
April 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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When Clan Sodor attacked.. #battletech Sunday Skirmish (Dec. 2024)
Top down view of a Battletech game map with mechs on a train convoy. A group of four BattleMechs, Thomas the Tank Engine mashups. Percy the Viper and Gordon the Dire Wolf. Thomas the Timber Wolf and Toby the Puma.
April 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Looks like you need a #mechpatch!
Help is within reach!
April 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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April 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Op Juno is coming back June 7th, 2025 at Torchlight Games and Hobbies, in Burlington, Ontario.
Come join us and support Wounded Warriors efforts in the field of veterans' mental health.
Link for tickets:
torchlightgh.com/products/ope...
Poster for a community Battletech tournament. A black and white image of an archival photograph of a beach landing, soldiers holding rifles running with mechs in the background.
April 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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If anyone has any suggestions about who I should contact, lmk. Our prize pool from last year.
I'd love to find a #miniature paint sponsor..
A pile of boxes with Battletech game gear, some Hextech terrain and other sundries.
April 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Poster for Vanilla Day
#battletech community skirmish game
Poster for Battletech community game, Vanilla Ice (rapper) with a mechwarrior tattoo on his face, the word Battletech in ice-cream looking letters and some adapted lyrics from the song "Ice ice baby" in the top left corner.
March 31, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Idk where this one came from, but I had fun making it. #battletech
I think Clan Sodor carried the day.
A mashup of Thomas the Tank Engine and a Battletech Marauder mech. There's a burning background and the text is "Clan Sodor says You dare to refuse my batchall?"
March 31, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Generic little #skirmish poster at our local game store. Couldn't reconcile the size of the image with the poster template.
_Thanks_, Dave. /s
March 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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With my sincere apologies to illustrators and graphic artists out there. My style is unabashed pastiche, I hv 0 illusions.

Rolly wouldn't stop laughing after he thought of putting Marty McFly in a #mechwarrior helmet, I thought the rest of you might get a kick, or at least exhale air out your nose.
March 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Poster for a community event - Operation Supply Drop -- a food drive and tabletop Battletech event. Text has information about the day of the event and the tagline "Spread kindness like an LB-X"
March 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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#Battletech Battle of Luthien event, held in January this year. Pretty generic from what I've done in the past for posters, with the exception of the #clan logos along the edge.
I think those were the clans that participated in the battle.. Idk, I'm not the BT nerd in this combo :P, I do maps. :D
Poster for a community event with the fragment of the cover of the Battletech book "Battle of Luthien" with 5 clan logos along the edge and the information about the event on the right side of the image.
March 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM