And now, thanks to a successful crowdfunding campaign and this retail launch, we know that the tabletop franchise still has plenty of life left in it.
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It was recently announced that the developers behind MechWarrior Online had secured the license to the franchise from Microsoft for another five years. The BattleTech fandom reached a high water mark in 2019, following the release of Harebrained Schemes’ BattleTech and Piranha Games’ MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. Retail is $19.99.Ī Star of Clan Elementals. Retail is $24.99.Īn Inner Sphere Battle Lance, including a Warhammer, Rifleman, Phoenix Hawk, and a Wasp ‘Mech. Retail is $19.99.Ī Clan Heavy Striker Star, including a Gargoyle, Hellbringer, Mad God, Ice Ferret, and a Viper ‘Mech. Retail price is $24.99Īn Inner Sphere Command Lance, including a Marauder, Archer, Valkyrie, and a Stinger. The Clan Command Star includes a Dire wolf, Stormcrow, Mist Lynx, and a Shadow Cat. The three included scenarios are also a lot more fleshed out, and include plenty of replayability. The slim 32-page rulebook includes everything you need to outfit your own units from scratch. The level of complexity also gets ratcheted up quite a bit, with offensive and defensive items like pulse lasers and Anti-Missile Systems (AMS) making an appearance. Toss in a stack of record sheets, and it’s a veritable campaign in a box.Ĭompared to the previous deluxe starter set, BattleTech: A Game of Armored Combat, the biggest addition here are the rules for customizing your own unit of ’Mechs from the ground up. There’s even a double-sided map of the entire galaxy, both before and after the eponymous Clan Invasion. There’s two double-sided battle mats, a selection of cardboard terrain, and 10 full-color cardboard standees. A short story by bestselling author Blaine Lee Pardoe helps set the tone for the Clan, a futuristic mashup of ancient Earth’s warrior cultures. The boxed set doesn’t stop there, however. Also included in this boxed set is the iconic TimberWolf-class OmniMech, easily one of the most formidable - and expensive - units in BattleTech history. These genetically modified warriors are able to leap on top of other BattleMechs and tear them apart with their bare hands. All are wielded by a MechWarrior’s skillful command to aid him in ultimate victory.Inside you’ll find six new sculpts, including two bases (10 total) of the Clan’s infamous Elemental powered armor. At their beck and call are the support units of armored vehicles, power armored 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. As star empires clash, these epic wars are won and lost by 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. Initially published over thirty years ago as a tabletop board game, BattleTech has gone on to become one of the gaming industry’s most important and longest-lasting science-fiction universes.
Each nation controls hundreds of worlds across a region of space stretching a thousand light years and beyond. It is a future where humanity has spread to the stars and spawned titanic interstellar empires. BattleTech is a science-fiction “space opera” a factional, militarised universe set in the thirty-first century.
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