I'll be honest with you, CGL. I've been an off an on player since '93. I became really comfortable in my Btech gaming experience. Nothing really challenging came out. The universe would move forward with some sourcebooks, some TRO's and maybe some new mini's. Then the jihad happened. I thought for sure that it would flop. I himmed and hahhed and stuck my tongue out. Then I bought the first in the series. After reading it straight through I was greatly surprised and proceed to eat some crow. CGL finally took all the old molds broke them and started someting completely different. The Jihad had been the best product up to this point.
The new box set totally blows the jihad line out of the water. I would put this box set up against anything Days of Wonder or Fantasy Flight has released. If I were to give a letter grade it'd be an "A". Oh-yeah the clan mech's rock. Great Job CGL.