Crimson Hawks Inception was the first BattleTech computer game to be published.

Overall, it's a fun little entry in the BattleTech universe, where you wander around a backwater planet,
trying to repel an enemy invasion & find your legendary MechWarrior pilot father.
Infermo SRM weapons are a must-buy personal weapon in game...they work against human & mech opponents.

Crescent Hawks Inception is is easy to get working under DOSBox.
One of the unskippable tutorial missions is a timed event. Unfortunately the game uses CPU speed to measure time,
so you will need to modify the CPU setting in your dosbox.conf file because modern CPUs are roughly 3 million
times faster than 1988 CPUs........

Therefore try the following [cpu] settings.
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[cpu]
core=simple
cycles=150
cycleup=10
cycledown=5
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Use of the CPU add (CTRL+F12) & CPU decrease (CTRL+F11) will probably be needed because
not everyone's CPU is the same, and what worked for me may not work for someone else.

ARISE from ancient SHUTDOWN mode.

Has anyone been playing the HBS Battletech beta?
If so, thoughts or concerns regarding the game?

2nd rise from the LosTech grave post.


So Battletech 2018 game, what's the verdict?

I don"t count Mech Assault as a proper Mechwarrior game, but if you're desperate enough, the old Sega Saturn had a pretty good port of Mechwarrior 2.

There is an isometric perspective Battletech game on SNES and Genesis that is pretty cool. Its sort of a clone of the Strike games (Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, ect) but with a Timberwolf/Madcat instead of a helicopter. It had a cool 2 player mode where one person controls the torso, and the other controls the legs. The game went by two different names. I believe it was just Battletech on the Genesis, and Mechwarrior 3050 on SNES.

There is a also a port of the original Mechwarrior for the SNES. Im using the term port pretty loosely here though. Its a completely different game that uses Mode 7 instead of real 3D.

Yeah, I played it on sega emulator and it's the only one BattleTech game I managed to finish.

Ok.MechAssault-Phantom War was the Nintendo DS Battletech game. Remember playing it for an hour or so, and missing the elemental suit gimmick from the Xbox MechAssault games.


Still haven't purchased Battletech 2018 game. I was extremely dissatisfied with HBS's Shadowrun games, especially the combat which was tedious and dragged down by the action point system/waves of enemy reinforcements in almost every battle.