Lessons from all 13 games of BattleTech I played in July

In July I played more BattleTech than ever before in the span of one month: a total of 13 games of BattleTech or Alpha Strike on tabletop. Here are big and small lessons I learned from all of those games. Here’s the link to the excellent battle report written by Leevizer:   / i_wrote_another_battletech_battle_report   Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:56 Lesson #1: ProtoMechs (AS and BT) 3:33 Lesson #2: Hidden units (BT) 5:56 Lesson #3: Steiner Stadium (AS) 6:38 Lesson #4: 3D terrain on hex maps (AS and BT) 8:28 Lesson #5: Deserts map pack (AS and BT) 9:42 Lesson #6: Demo game advice (BT) 11:06 Lesson #7: Overheating value (AS) 12:53 Lesson #8: Starting a campaign (AS and BT) 14:34 Lesson #9: Hovercrafts are fragile (BT) 15:30 Lesson #10: Intervening adjacent hex (BT) 16:24 Lesson #11: Initiative Deck uses (AS and BT) 18:39 Always be learning!