Knowing When You’re Wrong

On December 19, 2013 By

There’s a ton of skills involved in being a good line developer. Early in my career at FASA I can remember helping Bryan Nystul (then the BattleTech Line Developer) put together a job description. And man was I intimidated. Its a large, often almost eclectic set; and that doesn’t even includes the over-all temperament required.

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Reprints: Blessings & Banes

On December 13, 2013 By

A little walk behind the curtain.

We ran into the blessings & banes of reprints over the summer. We had the BattleTech Introductory Box Set, Total Warfare and A Time of War go out of stock all at the same time.

The initial reaction (and a correct one) is yea! That much of the line […]

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Catalyst Game Labs is pleased to announce that free BattleTech: Alpha Strike data files will be released for Lone Wolf Development’s Army Builder in the near future, available to all licensed Army Builder users for free!

“Next year BattleTech turns 30! And while we’re still publishing supporting books for this seminal game—including […]

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Additional December Street Dates

On December 6, 2013 By

The following product has a Street Date of DECEMBER 18TH, 2013:

Total Warfare ($39.99)

It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. 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 […]

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Total Warfare, Tech Manual, Tactical Operations, Strategis Operations, A Time of War, and A Time of War Companion PDFs are only $5.00!

All other BattleTech books/PDFs are 30% Off all weekend long, from Black Friday to Cyber Monday!

Shop for all your BattleTech books at the BattleShop or DriveThruRPG.com.

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Several cool items to talk about.

First, if you didn’t already know about it, the Alpha Strike update to the Master Unit List was made a few weeks back (I know, I know, I’m behind the times…trying to catch up).

For those that don’t know what the Master Unit List is, feel free […]

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December Street Date

On November 21, 2013 By

The following product has a Street Date of DECEMBER 18TH, 2013:

It is the year 3145. Only thirteen years have passed since Gray Monday—the day that most of humanity’s interstellar communications grid suddenly and mysteriously collapsed. Plunged into darkness and fearing the worst, the leaders and armies of the Inner Sphere scrambled to […]

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A New Succession Wars Boardgame?

On November 13, 2013 By

Did you click on this link with the same level of excitement we have as we’re contemplating this? I sure hope so…’cause I’m hopping at the idea we might do this….

However, first and foremost, before the rumor mills get going too over-the-top, this is NOT a done deal; hence why I’m talking about it […]

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The battlefields of the 31st century are commanded by the BattleMech, twelve-meter-tall, 100-ton bipedal engines of destruction. Fought by MechWarriors, commanded by neo-feudal officers, owned by national governments and band of mercenaries, loyal to one of the interstellar Successor States or the martial Clans, […]

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Isle of the Blessed

On October 2, 2013 By

In the second half of 2006, and into the early part of 2007, BattleCorps and InMediaRes partnered with BattleTech players worldwide to create something amazing: a serial novel, covering the Word of Blake attack on the Federated Suns capital, New Avalon, for which the players would game to determine the outcome.

That’s right: the […]

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