From the back cover: "Maximilian Liao offered Anton Marik two things: his daughter in marriage and the assassination of Anton's brother, Captain-General Janos Marik. To win the throne, Anton agreed, and the Free Worlds League plunged into a devastating civil war... His work done, Maximilian Liao just sat back and smiled. Although perceived as the weakest...
From the back cover: "When the Civil War of 3014 was over, Captain-General Janos Marik emerged triumphant. But at what a cost... Marik has lost his brother, his wife, and his confidence. The realm he rules, the Free Worlds League, weakened by over two centuries of warfare with the Lyran Commonwealth and the Capellan Confederation, is being torn apart by...
From the back of the book: THE BIG PICTURE Rolling Thunder is the first scenario pack to combine BattleTech, BattleForce, and MechWarrior Scenarios. Formed during the chaos that followed the struggle between Anton and Janos Marik, the Rolling Thunder company is a well-respected unit in the service of the Free Worlds League. Renowned for their warrior...
From the back of the book: Here is told, in strategic terms, the history of the ware from January 3029 to January 3030. The campaigns, the tactics, and the battles themselves, compiled from reports by the commanders and MechWarriors who fought them Full-color maps depict the movement of forces, battlefield terrain, and the cities and other objectives they...
Expansion for the BattleTech game. From the box cover: "All 96 BATTLEMECHS, including the new Star League and CLANS 'MECHS described in the BATTLETECH TECHNICAL READOUT: 3050, await your command. Included are 192 full color playing pieces depicting the front and back views on heavy stock, along with card stands. Also included is a book of 96 prepared...
From the back cover: ""Let the Games begin!" The bay door swings up and away, revealing your opponent across a labyrinth of obstacles rising from the arena floor. Barely aware that the signal has been given, you are off and running, weapons blazing to cover your desperate sprint to safety. Diving through a maelstrom of explosions, you round a corner and...
From the back of the book: "In 2784, General Aleksandr Kerensky led his loyal followers out of the Inner Sphere and into exile, far away from the strife and chaos of the Succession Wars. In 2815, his son Nicholas founded the Clans. In 3049, the Clans returned to the Inner Sphere, determined to avenge their forefathers and restore the glory of the...
From the back of the book: "From the unknown regions of the Periphery, they came to conquer. When they first arrived in the Federated Commonwealth, no one knew who these mysterious invaders were. Soon, Clan Jade Falcon became a name to be feared. They seemed completely unstoppable. They piloted strange new 'Mechs. Their armored infantry, nicknamed "Toads"...
From the back of the book: In 3049, without warning, Kerensky's heirs set upon the Inner Sphere in a savage series of battles known collectively as the Invasion. On Tukayyid the Com Guards brought the seemingly unstoppable Clan war machine to a halt. The Invasion ended as suddenly it had begun, and left in its place an uneasy peace. Both sides now had an...
From the back of the book The BattleTech Tactical Handbook is an advanced-rules supplement for the BattleTech game universe. The Handbook provides advanced rules and equipment that enable players to add new depth and intensity to their games. Guidelines for creating long-term campaigns and double-blind games, formulas for calculating the combat values of...
From the back cover: A hundred years ago, Primus Adrienne Sims of ComStar suffered nightmare visions of a dire threat to ComStar and the Successor States - hordes of strange monsters from beyond known space, invading the Inner Sphere to destroy it. These visions so troubled the Primus that she created the Explorer Corps, a division of ComStar dedicated to...
From the back of the book: For centuries, the powers of the Inner Sphere have looked down on their brethren in the Periphery with thinly-veiled disgust. To the "civilized" worlds of humanity, the Periphery is a backwater, not a place where any respectable person would want to live. And many still remember that the nations of the Periphery fought...