Sorry I missed your question earlier.
I have played it - it only works on my older model iPad - crashes on my iPad air.
Gameplay: It is fairly similar to MechCommander. You select units, tell them what to kill, and watch as they march across the board and blast it into dust. When they get battered, there are often repair stations available (with limited resources) where you can get fixed up, just like MechCommander. You can call in limited support (artillery, sensor scans, etc.), depending on the scenario.
The gameplay is reasonably challenging - going in half cocked, guns blazing will get you dead, so you need to figure out the puzzle for solving each level. The AI is fairly limited - it'll attack you if it sees you, and follows pre-scripted paths in many cases, but there's no dynamic recognition that you're taking out its outlying watch stations or guards and formulating a dynamic response. The enemy force concentrations generally are happy to hang tight at their duty stations and let you come to them. The final mission is an escort mission for Victor Steiner-Davion, and that guy really tries to get himself killed over and over.
The story meshes with the BattleTech one in broad outlines, but has numerous inconsistencies with canon fiction and dates. Jade Falcon ships are shown appearing in orbit over Winfield, but "The Field is Lost" has the Falcon fleet remaining at the jump point. When they go to Butler, they get orders via HPG directing them to go to Twycross to join the counterattack there. However, per canon, Butler fell months before Victor even proposed the Twycross counterattack.
Several characters from the Jade Falcon sourcebook appear in the game, but the units to which they're assigned were not the ones that canonically attacked Winfield, Butler, or fought on Twycross - making their presence a minor mystery/inconsistency.
The game credits Randall Bills and Loren Coleman for the story. Interestingly, it partially quotes Kai Allard-Liao's speech at the Great Gash from Lethal Heritage, but credits the speaker as "mystery man." I wonder if this was due to a rights/royalties issue - quoting freely from Kai could have triggered the need to pay Stackpole?
