Classic Battletech Total Warfare

Battletech Core Rulebooks #1

by Randall N. Bills, Battletech

It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. As star empires clash, these epic wars are won and lost by BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other lethal weapons; enough firepower to level entire city blocks. Your elite force of MechWarriors drives these juggernauts into battle, proudly holding your faction s flag high, intent on expanding the power and glory of your realm. At their beck and call are the support units of armored vehicles, power armored infantry, aerospace fighters and more, wielded by a MechWarrior's skillful command to aid him in ultimate victory. Will they become legends, or forgotten casualties? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate! October of 2006 sees the unveiling of a whole new look and presentation for Classic BattleTech. The basic rules and concepts of the game have not changed: thirty-foot tall metal titans of doom piloted by feudal MechWarrior knights firing lightning bolts, coherent lasers and autocannons in an orgy of destruction across a futuristic landscape of thousands of worlds. These concepts have made Classic BattleTech/MechWarrior one of the most successful science fiction lines ever created, spawning millions of sold MechWarrior PC games, almost a hundred full-length novels, more than ten million sold MechWarrior: Dark Age Collectable Miniatures Game figures, comic books, toys, a cartoon, virtual reality centers, over five-thousand fan-based websites and more. Yet it all began with the original board game, which still conveys all the best the universe has to offer, presented in a whole new way with the publication of the first in a new series of core rulebooks, Total Warfare. TOTAL WARFARE The product of more than twenty years of gaming experience, Total Warfare presents the rules of the Classic BattleTech game system as never before. For the first time, all the rules for various units that have a direct impact

Genres: Science Fiction, Gaming, Role Playing Games, Games

24 pages, Hardcover

First published August 21, 2006

Reviews

[Daniel Rainer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A brilliant game system which has stood the test of over 40 years. The combined -arms ground combat system is genuinely elegant. In contrast, the chapters on aerospace units are byzantine and confusing—seemingly grafted on from another, older game with little thought of how they contribute to the core gameplay loop. They're incredibly convoluted and should be reworked entirely. At the very least they belong in the back of the book. Putting aerospace movement as chapter 2 is insane.

[Xenon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Glad they re-did the rules since they were scattered all over the place. I also like all the pictures in the book to give you a good flavor of what BattleTech might look like.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty well written ruleset with a lot of illustrated examples.