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Battledroids box art. Battledroids is a 1984 board game published by FASA.. It would be renamed to BattleTech for its second edition in 1985 and spawn the BattleTech/MechWarrior military science fiction gaming franchise and setting with numerous board games, video games, roleplaying games, a collectible card game, comics, magazines, over a hundred novels to date and a television series.
The game was at first called Battledroids. [9] The name of the game was changed to BattleTech in the second edition because George Lucas and Lucasfilm claimed the rights to the term "droid"; [10] [11] the machines themselves were renamed BattleMechs from the second edition onward. The game components included:
Droids R2-D2 (left) and C-3PO (right), first featured in Star Wars. In the Star Wars space opera franchise, a droid is a fictional robot possessing some degree of artificial intelligence. The term is a clipped form of "android", [1] a word originally reserved for robots designed to look and act like a human. [2]
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
Human history or world history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers . They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
Title Catalog Year Publisher BattleDroids: 1604: 1984: FASA: BattleTech, Second Edition: 1604: 1985: FASA BattleTech, Third Edition: 1604: 1992: FASA BattleTech ...
Lists of battles contain links to sets of articles on battles.They may be organized alphabetically, by era, by conflict, by participants or location, or by death toll. See Category:Battles for a complete list of articles on battles.
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.