Extracting the BattleTech Master Unit List Alpha Strike Cards using Python and Sheets
Download all Alpha Strike Cards for the Tabletop Game
Need a New Universe?
While everyone was stuck inside during the Covid-19 pandemic, board games and tabletop games erupted in popularity. One of the games I’ve been falling in love with is BattleTech. Created in the 80’s, the BattleTech universe is akin to an intergalactic space opera depicting battles between towering battlemechs and the mechwarriors that pilot them. Over the years, it has matured into a vast sci-fi intellectual property that offers something for everyone: Explore the endless lore through volumes of novels, play as a mechwarrior controlling a giant robot in various videogames, and master mech-squad tactics via the Tabletop/board games.
Since the BattleTech tabletop war game has been around for over 30 years, it has gone through many iterations of rules, and there are a ton of units that can be used to build squads and wage intergalactic war. The Master Unit List was compiled as the Source of Truth for canonical units from the BattleTech universe.
In this article I describe how I created my own local Master Unit List and downloaded all of the Alpha Strike unit cards.
