Update to my last post of giving up on battletech

Long story short: I spoke with my friend and we came to a solution.

Long story long: basically the whole thing boiled down to us both having autism and not being able to read each others emotions and tone of voice. A lot of the lists he made he would make as a joke, as in “haha there is no way they accept this match, the list is broken lol”. I couldn’t tell that and he couldn’t tell that I wasn’t enjoying things(and before anyone says he was just saying it’s a joke to cover his tracks he pointed out some ways that he tries to make it clear he’s joking and going through the chat logs they are present). He was also not enjoying things a ton since the games would go by super quick and were a bit boring due to the lack of tactics. I addressed my issue pretty bluntly and we are going to work on communicating better moving towards.

I also found another solution in improving communication in the form of an arrow IV munition(the Davy Crockett M). Due to playing via coordinates we can’t use multiple map sheets(we have tried but duplicate cords make things difficult, this also limits the number of units we use sadly) this means pretty much everything on the map will die to the nuke. The option for me taking one means things kinda balance out. He doesn’t take broken mechs(and if he does he clears it with me first) and I don’t take a weapon capable of ending the game turn 2. It’s a bit like a nuclear peace(literally in this case).

But since our discussion we have played a few games and things have gone quite well. I think we are both enjoying things a lot more than we were before. We are also planning on some new missions in the future such as assassinations, sees like a good reason to get some command mechs like my cyclops finished

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone who commented on my first post giving me tips and offering to play with me