Modern Sourcebook Index by Era (WIP)

[Sartris]

More personal organization stuff I'm sharing. I've gathered (what I think) are all of the sourcebooks released since the FanPro days and categorized them by their official era. Some items like old RPG sourcebooks (CBT Companion) and books full of outdated rules (Combat Operations) have been omitted.

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^ - Takes place in the Clan Homeworlds
^^ - Takes place across multiple eras
* - Published by FanPro


List of Books Available for Print on Demand from Drivethrurpg.net

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Brush Wars Volume 1 (formerly Historical: Brush Wars) AVAILABILITY TBA
Brush Wars Volume 2 (formerly Historical: Wars of the Republic Era) AVAILABILITY TBA
Chaos Campaign: Succession Wars
Era Digest: Golden Century
First Succession War
House Arano
Operation Klondike (formerly Historical: Operation Klondike) AVAILABILITY TBA
Second Succession War
Wars of Reaving

Age of War (2005-2570)

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Era Digest: Age of War
Historical: Reunification War
TRO:3075^^ (contains a large section on Age of War designs)

XTRO: Primitives v.1-5

Star League (2571-2780)

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Era Report: 2750
Field Manual: SLDF
Field Report: 2765 PDF Series (five houses, periphery)
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.1
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.2
XTRO: Gunslingers

Historical Turning Points: New Dallas^^

Early Succession Wars (2781-2900)   

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Operation Klondike^ (formerly Historical: Operation Klondike)
Era Digest: Golden Century^
TRO: Golden Century^
First Succession War
Second Succession War

Historical Turning Points: New Dallas^^
Operational Turning Points: Widowmaker Absorption^
Turning Points: Orbisonia
Turning Points: Tokasha^
Turning Points: Tyrfing

Late Succession Wars - LosTech (2901-3019)

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Brush Wars Volume 1 (formerly Historical: Brush Wars)

Chaos Campaign: Succession Wars
Historical Turning Points: Malory's World

Late Succession Wars - Renaissance (3020-3049)

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Historical: War of 3039*
Starterbook: Sword and Dragon
TRO: 3039
XTRO: Succession Wars v.1

Historical Turning Points: Galtor
Historical Turning Points: Misery
Operational Turning Points: Death to Mercenaries
Turning Points: War of 3039 - Vega

Clan Invasion (3050-3061)   

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Battle of Tukayyid
Battle of Tukayyid Supplemental
Combat Manual: Kurita
Combat Manual: Mercenaries
Era Report 3052
Era Report 3062
Starter: Fist and Falcon
TRO: 3050 Upgrade
TRO: 3055 Upgrade
TRO: 3058 Upgrade
TRO: 3060

Historical Turning Points: Glengarry
Historical Turning Points: Luzerne
Operational Turning Points: Falcon Incursion
Operational Turning Points: Revival Trials^
Operational Turning Points: The Red Corsair

FedCom Civil War (3062-3067)

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FedCom Civil War*
Field Manual: Mercenaries (Revised)*
Field Manual: Update*
House Handbook Series (ca. 3067)
Interstellar Players*
Mercenaries: Supplemental*
Mercenaries: Supplemental II*
TRO: 3067
TRO: Project Phoenix*

Historical Turning Points: Antallos

Word of Blake Jihad (3068-3085)

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Blake Ascending (omnibus printing of FanPro-printed Dawn of the Jihad* and Jihad Hot Spots: 3070*)
Dawn of the Jihad*
Field Report PDF Series (ca. 3079)
Interstellar Players 2: Jihad Conspiracies
Jihad: Final Reckoning
Jihad Hot Spots: 3070*
Jihad Hot Spots: 3072
Jihad Hot Spots: 3076
Jihad Hot Spots: Terra
Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents (effectively Era Report: 3075)
Masters and Minions: The StarCorps Dossiers
Mercenaries: Updates*
Objectives PDF Series (ca. 3079)
Starterbook: Wolf and Blake
Total Chaos
TRO: 3075^^
The Wars of Reaving^
The Wars of Reaving: Supplemental^
Most XTROS: Boondocks, Clans, ComStar, Corporations, Davion, Gladiators, Kurita, Liao, Marik, Mercs, Most Wanted, Periphery, Phantoms, Pirates, RetroTech, Steiner

Historical Turning Points: New Dallas^^
Historical Turning Points: Tortuga
Jihad Turning Points: Atreus
Jihad Turning Points: Dieron
Jihad Turning Points: Hesperus II
Jihad Turning Points: Luthien
Jihad Turning Points: New Avalon
Jihad Turning Points: Sian
Jihad Turning Points: Tharkad
Turning Points: Arcturus

Early Republic (3086-3100)   
Late Republic (3101-3130)

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Field Manual: 3085
Brush Wars Volume 2 (formerly Historical: Wars of the Republic Era)
Interstellar Players 3: Interstellar Expeditions
TRO: 3085
TRO: 3085 Supplemental
TRO: Prototypes
XTRO: Republic v.1

Operational Turning Points: Capellan Crusades
Operational Turning Points: Fronc Reaches

Dark Age (3131-3150)   

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Era Digest: Dark Age
Era Report: 3145
Field Manual: 3145
Shattered Fortress
TRO: 3145
TRO: 3150
TRO: 3145 Faction PDF Series
XTRO: Republic v.2
XTRO: Republic v.3
XTRO: Royal Fantasy (Dark Age)

Dark Age Turning Points: Irian
Dark Age Turning Points: Liao
Dark Age Turning Points: Vega
Turning Points: Epsilon Eridani

ilClan (3151+)

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ilClan (coming soon?)
Recognition Guide: ilClan v1-22


[ActionButler]

Brilliant work, Sartris.  I was just thinking about starting a similar list.

Thanks again for sharing your great organizational talent with us 


Edit - Have we ever had a Tukyyid campaign book?  I am positive that I do not have one in my collection.  It would make a superb Turning Point book. 

[Deranith00]

This is an excellent resource to help guide purchases, thanks for putting it together!

[pheonixstorm]

Didn't FASA do a Tukyyid campaing(ish) book?

And why leave off the FASA collection? Many books that are still useful (House books, Objective Raids) and have far more details (full To&E of the Dragoons, 4th SW Atlas) than some of the newer books. Though there is probably a list for them I haven't run across...

[Mendrugo]

Though there is probably a list for them I haven't run across...

http://bg.battletech.com/forums/novel-and-sourcebook-reviews/master-chronological-fiction-review-index/msg583217/#msg583217

(The index leaves out the rulebooks, but includes everything written as an in-universe report, sorted by in-universe publication date.  To pick out the sourcebooks from the fiction and scenarios, just CTRL+F and type in "Sourcebook -")  (the ' -' will screen out the "Sourcebook Fiction" entries)

[ActionButler]

Didn't FASA do a Tukyyid campaing(ish) book?

After a little digging, FASA did do a Tukayyid book.  I don't think I have ever seen a copy, though.  Scenario books were never my main interest, but I tried to buy any that I saw at my FLGS, especially if it was Invasion-related. 

[Mendrugo]

The Tukayyid book had a collection of scenarios recreating key battles for each Clan, plus a hypothetical scenario based on the Clans finding and assaulting Focht's command bunker.  It also introduced heavily optimized "Clanbuster" variants of many 'Mechs from TRO:2750.

On the downside, it lacks an overall chronology for the battle (as I found when trying to use it as a guide for setting up a Planetary Invasion-scale BattleForce 2 game to simulate the whole shebang at a macro level), leaving it vague which battle happened in which order, and what forces were on-world when.

I think Tukayyid would be a good candidate for a Historical Turning Points supplement.

[Wrangler]

I love your list via Era.

[Sartris]

Didn't FASA do a Tukyyid campaing(ish) book?

And why leave off the FASA collection? Many books that are still useful (House books, Objective Raids) and have far more details (full To&E of the Dragoons, 4th SW Atlas) than some of the newer books. Though there is probably a list for them I haven't run across...

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Tukayyid_(scenario_pack)

As stated above, this was a personal project (much like the tech shift list I posted) of which the FASA catalog was not a part. I do recommend a limited number of older books in my product guide, including the 4th SW Atlas (link in sig). Apart from that, the only FASA era products I'd endorse with any level of enthusiasm are the Field Manuals. Books published prior to 1996 are pretty hit and miss. The early stuff especially has a number of errors or information that has been invalidated by newer canon sources (Objective Raids falls into the former group).

Suffice to say I had neither the time nor inclination to expand the scope of the list.

[ActionButler]

The Tukayyid book had a collection of scenarios recreating key battles for each Clan, plus a hypothetical scenario based on the Clans finding and assaulting Focht's command bunker.  It also introduced heavily optimized "Clanbuster" variants of many 'Mechs from TRO:2750.

That sounds fairly interesting, actually.  Definitely something that I would have purchased had I known it existed

As for Sartris' list, would it be bad form to suggest that the Battleshop organize itself in a similar, era + faction/location manner?  There is a specific section for the Jihad (even then, only as a subsection to the E-pubs section), but everything else is just jumbled together.  I still have my old books, but I wouldn't mind purchasing some pdf versions of the newer materials that are specific to either the Clans or the Federated Suns.  Sifting through the current catalog is an exercise in-and-of itself, though. 

[Go For The Throat]

Nicely done!

[Jal Phoenix]

You forgot TRO 3058.  And half of TRO 3075 is Age of War stuff, although probably superseded by the Primitives XTROs.

[Sartris]

You forgot TRO 3058.  And half of TRO 3075 is Age of War stuff, although probably superseded by the Primitives XTROs.

Thanks for that. Corrected. I haven't gone through '75 and primitives with a fine-tooth comb to check for discrepancies, but there still are several things in the book that aren't found anywhere else.

[Sartris]

minor updates for new products since march

[Wrangler]

Sartris, how come you don't have Field Reports 2765: (Faction Name)?  If you have them they should fit in the Star League Era.


Too bad XTRO: 1945 isn't exactly canon, be nice have pre-Spaceflight book. 

[roosterboy]

Sartris, how come you don't have Field Reports 2765: (Faction Name)?  If you have them they should fit in the Star League Era.

Star League (2571-2780)
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Era Report: 2750
Field Manual: SLDF
Field Report: 2765 PDF Series
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.1
Historical: Liberation of Terra Vol.2
XTRO: Gunslingers

Historical Turning Points: New Dallas^^

[Sartris]

updated through Turning Points: Epsilon Eridani (01JAN2016)

[roosterboy]

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Early Republic (3086-3100)
Late Republic (3101-3030)
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Era Digest: Dark Age


Since ED:DA is set in 3134 and covers events since 3132, I'm curious why you put it in the Republic period rather than Dark Age. I mean, isn't the very name a big clue where it belongs?

[Sartris]

I'm curious why you put it in the Republic period rather than Dark Age.

you have just been given a small taste of my wife's struggle.