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As far as I know( and I know 'cause I played both :P) Classic Battletech (aka CBT) is a miniature game played on exagonal grids with the terrain pictured under that grid (exist a variant using a more warhammer like measurement),the grid is used for measure the movements and for firing purposes. Every mech/vehicle/infantry have a sheet where is wrote all the stats and damage of the mech and there is a lot of firing rules.The game is more realistic and more fitting to the setting than MW(there an entire universe as background and a loooong history,a lot of novels and things happened).
MW instead is a more warhammerish in the measurement and in the terrain feature.Usually is played in a scale much minor (hence few units involved) and with other rules than CBT (some of thise can sound strange if you played or know the CBT's ones).There's no grid and the units have a circular bases with the stats written upon and a clicky thing that when the unit is hit you click the unit and this change the stats accordingly to the damage done (somewhat).
Another main difference is that MW is a collectible miniature game,CBT isn't.MW have the minis painted,CBT usually don't.But CBT,in my view have more longevity that MW 'cause MW is a collectible game then every three or so month there is new units usually more potent or useless that before and in the tournaments (as all the collectible games) there is the units banned or retired and so on...in the last issues of MW there is even some cards(collectible,of course) that works as enhancements of the basic minis.
The main cons of CBT is the minis painting but isn't strictly necessary to paint the minis and the minis per se isn't necessary either 'cause the presence of the sheets where the units' description exist(I seen CBT played with some painted beans,not so nice to see but worked)


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Want to say that I tried to be more impartial possible in this descriptions because I have a STRONG preference for CBT,I hope I was sufficiently impartial,though.