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    TRO 3145 Capellan Confederation, And Other PDFs, Now Available

    By randall on May 17, 2013

    The great experiment that was the Republic of the Sphere has failed. Withdrawn behind the Fortress walls, the once-great power has become a silent, opaque remnant of its former glory. Without its influence, old hatreds have risen anew. As war once more rages across the Inner Sphere, new equipment strides across ancient battlefields. Technology, [...]

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    Technical Readout: 3145 Mercenaries, and Other PDFs, Now Available!

    By randall on April 6, 2013

    The great experiment that was the Republic of the Sphere has failed. Withdrawn behind the Fortress walls, the once-great power has become a silent, opaque remnant of its former glory. Without its influence, old hatreds have risen anew. As war once more rages across the Inner Sphere, new equipment strides across ancient battlefields. Technology, [...]

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    Experimental Tech Readout: 1945 PDF Available!

    By randall on April 1, 2013


    Long before mankind reached out for the stars, the nations of Terra waged generations of war against one another. While each conflict underscored the barbarism and technological savvy of the human species, the Second World War stands out as the most epic and critical of them all. Locked in battle on land, sea, [...]

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    Liberation of Terra, Vol 2 PDF/Print Pre-order, And Other PDFs, Now Available!

    By randall on February 13, 2013

    In 2777—after ten years of savage fighting in the Periphery—General Alaksandr Kerensky and the Star League Defense Force launched the final phase in the war against Stefan Amaris, the Usurper of the Star League. For two more years, the greatest army ever forged by humankind would wage a planetby-planet war for the heart of [...]

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    Topps & Catalyst Announce Long-Term License Extension

    By randall on February 6, 2013

    The Topps Company and Catalyst Game Labs are pleased to announce a long-term extension for the Shadowrun and MechWarrior/BattleTech licenses. This deal facilitates Catalyst’s goals of continuing to support and grow the MechWarrior/BattleTech and Shadowrun brands and will see them continue to produce high quality role-playing games and outstanding fiction.

    “Everyone involved at Catalyst has [...]

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    Iron Wind Metals launches LAM Kickstarter

    By village_idiot on January 31, 2013

    Iron Wind Metals has launched a Kickstarter project to fund the three Word of Blake LAMs. If you’ve been craving some miniatures of all three modes of a LAM, you may want to head on over to the IWM site for their announcement and some additional information.

    You can also head straight [...]

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    Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex, Revised Edition, and Other PDFs, Available

    By randall on January 14, 2013

    MechWarriors receive all the glory; aerospace fighters are a close second; vehicles are considered the workhorses of any military; infantry are even given their day in the sun in the minds of the common citizen. But no battle could be waged, nor won, without the mammoth apparatus of support vehicles that feed the war [...]

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    December Street Dates

    By randall on December 13, 2012

    The following product had a Street Date of DECEMBER 12TH, 2012:


    A Time of War Companion ($44.99)

    Launch yourself into the universe of BattleTech with new technologies and prove your heroism to House Lords and Khans alike! Visit strange and distant worlds, and battle alien beasts beyond your wildest dreams! Demonstrate new combat [...]

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    Interstellar Expeditions Print Preorder, And Other PDFs, Available

    By randall on November 28, 2012

    Nearly fifteen years have passed since the end of the Word of Blake Jihad and the rise of the Republic of the Sphere. Yet even as the Inner Sphere adjusts to a new sense of normalcy, questions remain about whether the Blakist threat is gone for good or merely hibernating.

    Once a disorganized collective [...]

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    XTRO: Primitives Vol 3, and Other PDFs Available!

    By randall on November 7, 2012

    Before there was even a Star League, the technologies taken for granted in the thirty-first century went through their awkward paces in a universe newly opened to humankind. In an age when the BattleMech was nearly unknown, when the DropShip was a new concept, and when tanks and fighters dominated the battle zones, [...]

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