December 2025 Recap

12/02/202613/01/2026 by crudboy

December was a short month for the Monday Knights as we only met for three sessions due to the Christmas holiday break. The main event for the month was the Christmas party which involved everyone playing Space Gits. We had 12 players, so we split up across three games. After each game everyone was ranked … Read more

November 2025 Recap

30/12/202517/12/2025 by crudboy

The Monday Knights didn’t meet during the first week of November due to the Melbourne Cup public holiday, but on the second week we held our annual MK Cup DBA Mini Tournament. With ten participants, our 3 game tournament was open to any army from any time period and as a result there was a … Read more

October 2025 Recap

26/11/202524/11/2025 by crudboy

During October we started our Battletech campaign, based on the Hinterlands campaign book recently released by Catalyst Games Lab. The campaign began at Scale 1, meaning that starting player forces have a 3,000 BV limit to choose two Mechs, and well as two free pilot upgrades. Our campaign organiser created a number of contracts that … Read more

September 2025 Recap

04/11/202516/10/2025 by crudboy

There was a lot of OPR: Grimdark played at the Monday Knights during September. We’ve picked this game up recently, with many people being new to the game, led by a few with more experience. It has given some of the older gamers a great opportunity to dust off their old Warhammer 40K collections, put … Read more

July/August 2025 Recap

10/09/202503/09/2025 by crudboy

July saw the exciting conclusion to our three month Necromunda campaign. Every gang gathered for a final, all-in, free-for-all battle! Nine players engaged across a 6×4 foot underhive battlefield in a scenario devised by our arbitrator. Each player drew random objective cards from several decks based on their factional alignment. Objectives were varied, and could … Read more

June 2025 Recap

13/08/202515/07/2025 by crudboy

As winter sets in and the days get colder, wetter, and shorter, plenty of games and gaming stories were shared every Monday night at the Auburn Bowls club. The third and final phase of our 2025 Necromunda campaign got underway, leading lots of loot, injuries, and laughs. Due to the high injection of funds during … Read more

May 2025 Recap

10/06/202506/06/2025 by crudboy

We kicked off our 2025 Necromunda campaign in March and that continued through April and into May. The second phase of the campaign begun with a multiplayer game with the gangs of Sabotage trying to poison the supplies while the gangs of Control tried to stop them, across a 6″ x 4″ foot table. In … Read more

February 2025 Recap

25/04/2025 by crudboy

As is usual for the Monday Knights, there was a wide variety of games played this month. Alpha Strike saw lots of action once again, but with a twist. Players participated in a draft style mini tournament, where each player brought four battlemechs to put into a draft pool and each player took turns to … Read more

January 2025 Recap

10/03/202510/02/2025 by crudboy

This January, as with most January’s at the Monday Knights, was filled with practice for some of the games that were part of CanCon 2025. CanCon is a popular gaming convention for the Monday Knights, with many of us taking the 7 hours drive from Melbourne To Canberra for a long weekend filled with wargaming, … Read more

November 2024 Recap

03/12/2024 by crudboy

Towards the end of any year a lot of our members start to focus on the games that they intent on playing at the CanCon gaming convention in Canberra on the Australia Day long weekend in January. As a result, November saw a less diversified list of games being played. We kicked off November with … Read more

Tournament Recap: Knights Of The Sphere

15/09/2024 by Aether Null

The “Knights of the Sphere” Alpha Strike tournament was played out on Saturday the 14th; a dozen players attended from multiple clubs to play Battletech: Alpha Strike and compete for their chosen great house! The day was a great success, with the player pool filled with our very own Monday Knights, several members from NWA, … Read more

Knights of the Sphere – Alpha Strike Tournament

21/08/2024 by Aether Null

We are running an Alpha Strike Tournament at 400PVPlayers will be backing one of the great houses to aid in claiming the title of first lord, or just get paid well while doing it. Event Door Entry: $20When: 14th of SeptemberTime: 9am-5pm (Schedule in players pack)Where: Auburn Bowls Club (2B Munro St, Hawthorn East VIC … Read more

July 2024 Recap

21/08/202407/08/2024 by crudboy

As usual there was a large variety of games played the the Monday Knights during July. The highlight was our Battletech tournament. Ten competitors gathered on Saturday 22nd of July for the Monday Knights annual Battletech Auction Tournament. Each participant was given 100,000,000 C-Bills to bid on a mix of 4th Succession Wars era Mechs. … Read more

June 2024 Recap

09/07/2024 by crudboy

Our Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave campaigns continued in June, along with many other games being played. The Necromunda Dominion campaign kicked into high gear with the Take Over phase. During this phase of the campaign, players are attempting to take control of other players’ territories which were gained in the Occupation phase. Surprisingly, not many … Read more

May 2024 Recap

11/06/202410/06/2024 by crudboy

The month of May saw the beginnings of two campaigns within the club for Necromunda: Underhive and Frostgrave. Other Games included Battletech Alphastrike, Conquest, ADLG, Car Wars and Star Wars Legion

April 2024 Recap

03/05/202403/05/2024 by crudboy

April 2024 saw a fair amount of Legions Imperialis being played at the club. This month saw the debut of a 3000 point game. Otherwise 2000 point games were the most common as everyone builds up their armies. Other staples this month included ADLG (Art De La Guerre), Conquest: Last Argument of Kings, Kill Team, … Read more

2020 the year we had to have!

01/05/202415/01/2021 by floppy

2020 was the year that we had to have, if it could go wrong it did. but we survived, sanity checks passed, and here is 2021…. So it is time to review my year, in 2020 I had time to paint stuff, however 2020 also threw other issues at us. This is everything I got … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project – Part 2

01/05/202408/01/2021 by floppy

Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project – Part 2 the wrap. Here we are at the end of the project, and what a project it was. I am a little over mechs, but I know there is more coming, so I have stop being precious and suck it up. With the whole cluster done here, … Read more

4 Clan Blood Scorpion mechs

01/05/202401/01/2021 by jbarton11

Mechs, Mechs and more Mechs. We’ve had quite a bit of Battletech content lately. But with the Kickstarter out, Tex doing his thing and a couple of decent computer games it is actually a really good time to be a Battletech fan. I did the Kickstarter and ended up with around 40 Inner Sphere and Clan mechs arriving at my door a few weeks back. And I though I should paint a few of them. So I started with some of the Clan, and I desire to do something bright, crazy looking and not that common. Yeah, I should have done some Fire Mandrill shouldn’t I, but I did’t and instead I did some Clan Blood Spirit.

Clan Jade Falcon – Delta Supernova Eye

01/05/202421/12/2020 by floppy

The final push to get the my Clan Jade Falcon Cluster complete, starting here with the Final Supernova Delta. This is a recon unit really, with light and fast mechs. Mechs of Delta Supernova Eye Fenris x2 Uller Dasher x 2 Dasher 2 Dasher 2 Fenris 1 Fenris 2 Uller

Clan Jade Falcon – Delta Supernova Strider 1 and Strider 2

01/05/202418/12/2020 by floppy

Delta Supernova Strider 1 and 2, here we are at the end of the paint project. I am glad to be done, with new stuff incoming (at the time of writing at least) I am going to end up with a new project soon, I am not sure I have enough foam to hold it … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Charlie Supernova Strider 1 and Strider 2

01/05/202411/12/2020 by floppy

On to the good stuff, the Elementals. The two striders in Charlie Supernova are both from a 3rd party manufacture, they are much bigger than the old metal elementals, to the point you can only fit 3 on a base. they also make some headhunters which adds nicely to the units. I really like the … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary Beak

01/05/202405/12/2020 by floppy

The Beak for my Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary, is a nasty little piece of work. The Mad Cat has 4 Streak SRM6’s two to the front and Two to the rear, as well as 2 ER PPC’s. I had to custom build parts of this mech and I think that is my fav … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary Eye

01/05/202427/11/2020 by floppy

The third and final part of the Bravo Trinary, and this time is the Eye. The eye’s being a mix of light/medium mechs makes is very flexible. This time we have two mechs I have yet to paint and display the Dragonfly (Viper) this mech’s cockpit reminds me so much of a DC 3 ww2 … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Charlie Super Nova Beak

01/05/202423/11/2020 by floppy

My Clan Jade Falcon – Charlie Super Nova Beak Star finally complete. with this project I can see the end of the road. I have been working pretty hard to get it all done while under lockdown, and while I write this, we have been given release to get our lives back.. so my painting … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary Talon

01/05/202409/11/2020 by floppy

Having finally completed the Alpha Trinary, I got moving on My Clan Jade Falcon – Bravo Trinary Talon Star. I have a deadline and that sound is looming so I had to get a move along, I would like to finish 1 project this year. This is my chance, however the year is closing fast. … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Alpha Trinary Beak

01/05/202426/10/2020 by floppy

The final post of my Clan Jade Falcon – Alpha Trinary Beak, or the last part of the Alpha Trinary really. The Beak is meant to be the weapon that does all the fighting for Jade falcon. These Mechs can take on most things, the Vulture has a pair of LRM 20’s, Large Pulse and … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Alpha Trinary Talon 2

01/05/202423/10/2020 by floppy

We are back with more Clan Jade Falcon. Here is Alpha Trinary – Talon 2 it is almost as big and Talon 1. However this has only two assault mechs, with three heavies that all hit pretty hard themselves. The Loki has a Pair of ER PPC’s and a Targeting Computer, making it a nasty … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon – Alpha Trinary Talon 1

01/05/202419/10/2020 by floppy

I am back with progress on my Clan Jade Falcon, this time with the first Star of the Alpha Trinary, better known as Talon 1. This star is an assault star. Clan Jade Falcon name their stars after the primary purpose based on weight. A bit of back ground on the types of stars used … Read more

Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project – Part 1

01/05/202409/10/2020 by floppy

My Clan Jade Falcon Cluster Project is my biggest Battletech undertaking. Lets start with a how the clans are arranged. Rank Unit Consists of Warrior N/A N/A Squad Commander Squad 5 Warriors Point Commander Point 1 ‘Mech, 2 Aerospace Fighters, 2 Combat Vehicles, 5 Elementals, or 5 squads. Star Commander Star 5 Points Nova[55] … Read more

Innersphere Mechs Part 2

01/05/202407/09/2020 by floppy

Continuing on from my Part 1 I have the follow up all completed and ready to go. With Battletech still waiting on the Battletech Kickstarter, I should complete the rest of the IS mechs. we have here: Jenner Mercuray Panther Trenchbuchet Centurion quickdraw Enforcer this gives me 20 Mechs in this scheme. and overall some … Read more

That Battletech project I have been putting off

01/05/202428/08/2020 by General POTUS

When I first got into Battletech, I really struggled with a paint scheme to do the miniatures justice. I tried some camouflage schemes and some of the complex traditional Inner Sphere liveries as well. Camouflage seemed a little pointless with giant nuclear robots crashing through the forest in the universe of the third millennium trying to … Read more

Battletech Clan Ghost Bear Decals

01/05/202424/08/2020 by General POTUS

I am pretty sure that my eye sight was a lot better and my hands were a lot steadier when I painted my first batch of Battletech Clan mechs about twenty years ago. I have always enjoyed putting 3025 era Battlemechs on the table & most of my effort had gone into painting Inner Sphere, … Read more

Innersphere Mechs Part 1

01/05/202417/08/2020 by floppy

With Battletech being still in favor, I had a look at how many Mechs I had. It turns out I have a lot of Mechs, more Clan then Innersphere I thought. That may not be the case, so here in my Innersphere Part 1 I am going to go through the first half of all … Read more

CORONA VII Wrap Up – Play by Mail Battletech

01/05/202412/08/2020 by General POTUS

Melbourne is into week 2 of stage 4 Coronavirus lock down. This has followed on from two separate stage 3 lockdowns which has prevented the Monday Knights from holding club meetings since June. Four Monday Knights – Lord T, Baron, Snowflake and JB11 – piloted Clint, Wolfhound, Vulcan and Javelin light Battlemechs in a “play … Read more

Battletech Unseen Mechs

01/05/202403/08/2020 by floppy

We have an upcoming game of Battletech, Lance V Lance (4 on 4) at 5000 BV 2.0, from the Master Unit lists. I decided that I should use some Classic Battletech Unseen Mechs. Why are they unseen, well that stems from some of the mechs look remarkably like those from Macros, Robotech, Crusher Joe … Read more

CORONA VII – Play by Mail Battletech

01/05/202429/07/2020 by General POTUS

Unfortunately Melbourne (Australia) is still in Coronavirus lock-down which means that there will be no club meetings for the foreseeable future. Faced with the prospect of not rolling any dice for some time, I have offered to umpire a “Play by Mail” Battletech game with slightly modified rules to allow for a multi-player game with … Read more

Battletech Blue Fist Mercanary’s

01/05/202406/07/2020 by floppy

After painting all the red and mostly red on the SAGA force, I thought it time to sit down and start doing some Battletech. In a new Scheme for a new Merc force. I have alot in candy apple red, that I did years ago, though I do need to finish the rest of the … Read more

Making Battletech Trees

01/05/202426/07/2019 by crudboy

I’ve always had a thing for Battletech, but I’ve never had a thing for flat, paper maps. So I thought I’d try to make those paper maps more interesting by adding some scenic trees. Whenever I have looked into buying 1/300 scenic trees I was never able to find anything I liked. I did eventually … Read more

Unseen Battlemechs

01/05/202427/06/2019 by jbarton11

Trophy work in progress – One Night Battletech Madness

01/05/202426/06/2019 by General POTUS

The Monday Knights will be hosting a Battletech completion a little later on in July – the “One Night of Battletech Madness” I thought that I would have a crack at making some trophies for the event & here is the work in progress of the trophy for “First Place” I started with a plastic … Read more

Some Battletech

01/05/202420/05/2019 by jbarton11

In the lead up to our recent tournament there was a lot of ADLG played. Since the tournament we’ve been playing a few lighter games. One of which is Battletech; the arrival of the new box set lead to someone looking for a few games and we all have a few mechs to run. However … Read more

Battletech

01/05/202420/09/2015 by floppy

Battletech gets rolled out a couple times a year, it is one of those games that is good to play every so often. The biggest problem being that it takes along time to play the game.

Recently we have had couple of nights of Battletech, both games finished, which surprises most.