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First published on the BattleCorps fiction site, these stories comprise the first half of a duology that culminates in Chaos Born: Book One of the Chaos Irregulars.

An intense strategy guide with tips and hints as well as insight into the game storyline for a better understanding of the game and how to be successful. This guide provides insight into the Battletech universe upon which the game is based. But now the Wall has come down, and Paladin Max Ergen, commander of Operation Eruptio, has his sights set on an invaluable prize.

His target: Dieron, a Draconis Combine military district capital, a former Republic world harboring secrets from past wars.

His troops have spent years training in isolation behind the Wall, and they are hungry for battle, ready to remind the Inner Sphere that the wounded Republic is still a force to be reckoned with. If short and sweet is your priority, MW 2nd edition is the clear winner. But ultimately anything will work. Good luck! If I want to get started in Battletech running a campaign with friends which would be the better investment? I want to be able to run battles with campaign rules for repairs and handling money in-between so that the players care about the danger they place their mechs in.

I would also like to be able to utilize vehicles as simpler enemies in some missions for them so they arent only ever fighting mechs. Anyways which makes more sense to do this if I own no prior books? Is it necessary for running an intro campaign? You're choosing to dive into hard mode by going straight into all unit types, and maintenance for all of them, and running a mercenary unit as well. Good luck. As for books, the Battlemech Manual is an excellent book in my thoroughly biased opinion, but it isn't what you in particular need.

You'll want you Option 2, plus Record Sheets Unabridged, plus Strategic Operations maintenance rules and Campaign Operations mercenary unit creation rules. Let me ask this, does this make things particularly challenging for me as the guy running OpFor or does this also greatly increase the difficulty for my players?

I worry if I throw them in too deep then they'll be afraid to give the system another go. They all have some experience with tabletop RPGs but few have any real wargame experience.

I figured throwing them each in as a single battlemech and having me run the opposing stuff would work okay. Assuming by "this" you mean your proposed campaign plan and not the Battlemech Manual, then yes, this is increasing the difficulty for your players, because someone is going to have to keep track of expenses, parts, and supplies for the player' mercenary unit. You can take on a lot of the burden--even most, I'd say--but if you want the players to have any meaningful decisions and the feel of financial risk that you've mentioned in such a game, you'll have to give them some of the work to go with it.

If you've got a guy who likes that sort of in-game accounting not common, but definitely not unheard of; Battletech tends to attract these sorts , they'll love this. If you just have guys who want to blow stuff up, the idea of accounting but in space is still probably going to be a turn-off. I'd suggest starting with the Battlemech Manual and some simple battles, then maybe forming a unit around the group and fighting a bit more, and only then begin introducing other units types and accounting See more elements for their group, so that they become invested in the game and their band and thus the paperwork seems to have a reward rather than just being a chore.

See All Ratings and Reviews. Browse Categories. Wolfenoot Sale. Rule System. Apocalypse World Engine. BRP Basic Roleplaying. Modiphius 2d Savage Worlds. Product Type. Core Rulebooks. Non-Core Books. Aerospace , or get the Battlemech Manual which one has full rules for Mechs plus additional optional rules that. The BattleMech Manual is a hardcover BattleTech rulebook that covers game rules for BattleMechs only in a concise and clarified fashion. The reprint features errata corrections and further rewordings and clarifications, as well as new cover art.

The Manual is intended as a self-contained rulebook for players who wish to focus on BattleMech combat, with an emphasis on tabletop gameplay as opposed to being a reference manual like previous core rulebooks. While it thus leaves out all other unit types, and was deliberately written to be as concise as possible and to eliminate rules vagaries, it is not intended to be a purely introductory product. It contains a few pieces of equipment from Interstellar Operations , many pieces of equipment taken from Tactical Operations , and a few of the optional rules found in that book and Strategic Operations.

No construction rules are included. In terms of product progression, it is meant to slot in between the introductory box set either the 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set or its replacement, A Game of Armored Combat and the full tournament ruleset of Total Warfare. Support sarna. The BattleMech Manual is a hardcover BattleTech rulebook that covers game rules for BattleMechs only in a concise and clarified fashion. This book is not to be confused with the Battle T ech Manual rulebook.

The reprint features errata corrections and further rewordings and clarifications, as well as new cover art. A fourth printing was released on 23 April , featuring errata corrections as well as another change of cover art. The Manual is intended as a self-contained rulebook for players who wish to focus on BattleMech combat, with an emphasis on tabletop gameplay as opposed to being a reference manual like previous core rulebooks.

Problem: The last sentence in the paragraph, which reads "For more information, see Changing Levels in Buildings , page Recommendation: Make the sentence in question into it's own paragraph, and possibly move it to the end of Building Levels section. Alternatively delete the sentence.

Problem: Technically the rules as they are written allow for hidden 'Mechs to be revealed by friendly 'Mechs ending their movement in adjacent hexes. This is inconsistent with p. Recommendation: For clarity change "Additionally, a 'Mech that ends its move next to a hex containing a hidden 'Mech reveals that 'Mech. I've upped it to the main website already, so grab it there. Mostly wording quibbles and stuff resulting from a thorough going over of the rules once again, this time for the new box sets.

The main change is a clarification that PSRs caused by damage are calculated based on the damage actually dealt to the mech, after any modifications to that total. However, hardened armour only counts each full armour circle it loses as "one point of damage" for this purpose. So you'd have to do 40 damage to a unit with hardened armour to reach that 20 pt PSR threshold. A bit of an inconsistancy in the BattleMech Manual.

Page Quote. Would benefit from including the rule that movement is reduced to 1 MP. Hard to locate the rule otherwise. Xotl: The section points to Leg Destruction, which has the details since a leg outright being blown off is only one of the ways you can lose a leg.

I originally had all that info there, but then realized that I was needless duplicating that information from just four pages back. Lime2K Recruit Posts: 7.

Xotl: Corrected in the second printing. So, the BattleMech Manual has already sold out: my warmest thanks to all who purchased a copy. That means a reprint is in order, and with it, all errata to date being folded in.

The new errata document will be available on the main BT webpage's Errata section in the next hour or so. As the book is my baby, I've considered the year since its release akin to another beta period. As such, you'll see in the second printing a much greater degree of change than the usual strictly error correction style done in most other reprints. For those of you who want an idea of what is changing beyond the usual errata document available on the main BT webpage, you can download the following.