Just hope we managed to strike a final balance that most people will enjoy (with such passion, never gonna make it work for everyone). They’re beloved and hated in equal measure. Land-Air BattleMechs… I wrote a whole other post about these oddballs. So for the first time in 15 years or so, we’ve folded these long-lost weapons back into a rulebook.
When the BattleTech Compendium published in 1990 those weapons were not included and subsequent reprints of the TRO saw them vanish. In there was a single table that included some “improved” weapons standard 3025-era Inner Sphere weapons with slightly better game stats. In 1989 Technical Readout: 3050 published. But some of my personal favorites as a developer for what we’ve brought together here. There’s so much fun equipment and rules that almost any player is going to find items they’ll enjoy using. And over half of it is the Alternate Eras sections. Now this is a massive book (almost clocking in at 400 pages). Here’s that same page, now with the page reference column added. I previously posted about page XXs and the crazy 28-page table where we decided we needed to spend the time to insert page references (a fantastic fan suggestion I can’t believe we didn’t do the first time through). After an Atlas-sized pile of work (monster kudos to Herb Beas, Ray Arrastia and Joel Bancroft-Conners–just to name a few–for stepping way, way up to make this book a reality), it is finally available for print preorder (and you can grab the PDF as well, of course)!
…some day, if you see me at a con, buy me a nice, big, tall glass of ice cold chocolate milk and I’ll regale you with stories of how Interstellar Operations killed half a dozen authors and developers…īut, if there’s one thing to be said for Catalyst is our sheer stubbornness. Unfortunately, the scale and what I was trying to accomplish meant that every subsequent book kept getting bigger, and more complex, and more difficult…and when you reach the penultimate “staging rules” book, well…
What feels like a million years ago, now, Loren and I hatched the “Year of Hardbacks!” concept (that still makes me laugh!) that would eventually lead to the publication of Total Warfare.
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