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The Battle of Tukayyid #1-9. Includes: Blake's Own, Two Roads Diverged, Shadow of Death, The Burdens of Honor, Always Moving, The Lions of Prezno, The Icarus Lament, We Do the Impossible, Broken Promises. Shrapnel (The Official BattleTech Magazine) Issue #4
MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries is a video game released in September 1996 as a stand-alone expansion to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat and the last BattleTech game made by Activision. In this game, the player takes control of an Inner Sphere mercenary squad, with control over finances and free choice of missions.
Each battle has a goal such as search-and-destroy, reconnaissance or a base strike. [5] Initially, the player controls one mech and in later missions has access to squad commands. [ 5 ] Between missions, a mech lab allows players to customize the weapon, armor, engine and heat sinks of any drivable mech. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] : 14
A key feature of the BattleTech universe is the absence of non-human intelligent life. Other than one or two isolated encounters in novels, mankind is the only sentient species. Above all, the central theme of BattleTech is conflict, consistent with the franchise's wargaming core. [1]
With the demise of FASA Corporation in 2001, publishing of the original BattleTech novel series came to an end. When WizKids acquired the rights to the future of the BattleTech Franchise (re-christened as MechWarrior), they approached several of the established BattleTech authors including Randall N. Bills and Michael A. Stackpole to resurrect the novel franchise. [2]
Catalyst Game Labs (CGL) was created in May 2007 by InMediaRes Productions, LLC for the purpose of publishing print Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech sourcebooks. [1] In June 2007, WizKids transferred the licenses for both Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech from FanPro's United States subsidiary, FanPro LLC, to Catalyst, and in June 2008, Catalyst announced novels for Shadowrun and Classic ...
MechWarrior, known in Japan as BattleTech (バトルテック), is a first-person action video game for the Super NES set in the BattleTech universe. The SNES game was based upon the original PC MechWarrior, with updated graphics that utilized Mode 7 for the Battlemech mission sequences instead of the PC version's flat-shaded 3D graphics.
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.