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BattleTech is a turn-based multiplayer game, typically played on a map divided into hexagonal grids with figurines or counters representing military units. Paper record sheets provide detailed information about each unit, including its armament, armor and equipment, and are used to track damage, heat buildup, ammunition and various other data.
BattleTech shares a setting with the original board game, now called Classic BattleTech.The game takes place during the 3025 Succession Wars Era, in which powerful noble houses employ an ever-shrinking number of giant fighting vehicles called battlemechs ('mechs for short), piloted by individuals called MechWarriors, to fight for control of the Inner Sphere.
It depicts the inception of the "Black Widow Company" in 3015 and offers a brief introduction to the BattleTech universe as a prelude on the inside cover. Three potential game scenarios are presented in the back of the book. A series of licensed comics, published in the late 1980s by Blackthorne Publishing under the BattleTech and BattleForce ...
BattleTech 3025 (Later 3026)* 1991-Volunteers: MUSE BattleTech 3056* 1993-Volunteers: MUSE BattleTech 3030* 1994-Volunteers: MUSE (Later incarnation changed to TinyMUX code after the success of the spinoff game Varxsis) BattleTech: The Frontier Lands* Inner Sphere 3028* MUX: Invasion3042* 2006-2014: Volunteers: Windows MechWarrior: Living ...
BattleTech: A Time of War (Catalyst Game Labs, November 2010) [6] Reprinted November 2022. MechWarrior: Destiny (Catalyst Game Labs, June 2020) [7] "MechWarrior: Destiny is a new, alternative fast-play BattleTech RPG... [it] represents an additional option for BattleTech role-playing rather than a replacement for AToW".
MechAssault is a video game released for the Xbox notable for being one of the first games to support Xbox Live online multiplayer. Developed by Day 1 Studios and FASA Studio and published by Microsoft, MechAssault was initiated when Denny Thorley of Day 1 Studios approached Jon Kimmich of Microsoft about developing an original BattleTech game built from the ground up to support console play ...
MechWarrior 3050, also known as BattleTech in its original Sega Genesis release and in Japan as BattleTech 3050 (バトルテック3050), is a 1994 mech-based video game developed by Malibu. The first BattleTech based game to be released for the Sega Genesis , it was later ported to the Super Nintendo by Activision as MechWarrior 3050 .
Normal BattleTech game play usually is set up for small encounters (up to 12 units per side). Though large battles are possible using the normal games rules for BattleTech, playing the game can consume much time. BattleForce was designed to address this problem. The game allows wide use of units (vehicles, Battlemechs, air vehicles, etc.).