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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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Rolly and I are taking the time to recover from everything #battletech in the spirit of neurospicies who've overdone it. Learning that it's not about #balance, it's more about knowing yourself. <3 the BT community, we'll see you around! -- JMak
July 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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(6 June 1944, Amfreville area, France.) Men from 6 Commando. #WW2 #HISTORY
June 10, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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R is already painting #mechs for himself and talking about swapping out for the 0.2mm nozzle so he can get back to printing terrain for himself. #battletechdiehard
What happened to R&R?
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BattleTech - Field Maintenance and Reload | Archer ARC-2K, Jayden Morris
An Archer from the 3rd Benjamin Regulars undergoes repairs during the Galtor Campaign. -- The VTOL model is called a Senshi. A DCMS made attack helicopter modelled on the Warrior. (unofficial fan lo...
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June 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Grand prize draw video: please note my campy use of music. #OpJuno #battletech #woundedwarriors youtu.be/MrB-wJB9zV0
Op Juno Grand Prize Draw - 8 June 2025
YouTube video by ClassicBT What If Events
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June 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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#OpJuno raised a total of ~$670 CAD for #woundedwarriors! Thank you to all our donors and tournament participants! #fortressminis #northernlights #henrietvictoria <3
June 8, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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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 :(
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#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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9 days till the ticket deadline for OpJuno 2025! Special raffle grand prize! #battletech #woundedwarriorscanada #opjuno #henrietvictoria #hextech #thunderheadstudio #galeforce9 #fortressminiatures #northernlightsterrain Tickets: rb.gy/yftfss
May 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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My 6 yo:
Can black be transparent?
Me:... *proceeds to give tutorial in light polarization filters*
Raising future nerds! 🔆🤓💪🏽
April 30, 2025 at 7:28 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'd like to welcome back one of our past sponsors: Fortress Minis!
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We're grateful to Bobby Ash for his continued support, check out the website for lostech, star league era #Battletech swag!
#fortressminiatures #woundedwarriorscanada #torchlightgamesandhobbies
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April 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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We made it into SARNA's News Roundup! Midway down the page, keep scrolling :P (celebrating a win here, a little late):
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Sarna.net is THE encyclopedic source for all things #battletech
#woundedwarriorscanada
Tickets: shorturl.at/lVbAE
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April 29, 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.
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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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Also in the works, a map of the Gibraltar strait for a game of #Leviathans, a double size map for some dudes. I'm learning QGIS, it's fun.
April 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Looking to get back into making maps for Utah and Omaha beaches and making #alphastrike versions of the 6 maps we already have for the Juno tournament -- 4 beach maps and 2 inland, finale maps: Carpiquet airfield and the Bretteville-l'Orguilleuse railway station.
April 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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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@rgpoulussen.bsky.social We should talk when we start prepping the maps and scenario for Op Market Garden with #mechs. No timeline yet, we're running the next edition of #opjunobeach this June.
April 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM