New players will find it best to start with one of the introductory sets first. It is not a complex game at its heart, however additional technology adds rules as well as depth. Shiny Games on BattleTech Total WarfareīattleTech is one of the all-time great miniature games, playable either on a hex-board or a gaming table. New players should ideally pick up one of those boxes before diving into this one. The ideal introductory games in the BattleTech line are BattleTech: A Game of Armoured Combat and the budget-conscious alternative Beginner Box which just features two BattleMech models. It’s an ideal reference book once you’ve learned the basic game rather than the best to teach you the basics all the extra technologies and expansive rules that aren’t in the boxed set are in this book. Total Warfare is the single-source rulebook for people who play BattleTech. Interwoven and meticulously updated, Total Warfare provides the most detailed and comprehensive rules set published to date for BattleTech-the perfect companion for standard tournament play. For the first time, all the rules for various units that have a direct impact on the deadly battlefields of the thirty-first century appear in a unified rules set: from BattleMechs to ProtoMechs, Combat Vehicles to Support Vehicles, infantry to aerospace fighters and DropShips. The product of more than twenty years of gaming experience, Total Warfare presents the rules of the BattleTech game system as never before. It also provides rules for use and construction of unusual and rare combat units such as Land Air Mechs, Superheavy. The book is broken up in sections which covers era-specific experimental technologies from the Age of War to the Late Dark Age Era.
Will they become legends, or forgotten casualties in this time of total warfare? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate! Interstellar Operations is the last of a series of core rulebooks written for BattleTech. The skilful MechWarrior can command all these units to aid him in ultimate victory. At their beck and call are the support units of armoured vehicles, power armoured infantry, aerospace fighters and more.
They proudly hold your faction’s flag high, intent on expanding the power and glory of your realm.
Your elite force of MechWarriors drives these juggernauts into battle. Star empires clash, winning and losing these epic wars using BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other lethal weapons enough firepower to level entire city blocks. It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. BattleTech: Total Warfare returns with a new cover, presenting the core BattleTech rules as a useful reference.