After Tukayyid, the Inner Sphere knew a tentative peace. The major powers, Inner Sphere and Clan, were no longer burdened by the terrible war of the Clan Invasion so they focused on finding ways to wage war better when the dogs of war were next unleashed. Oh, and to take potshots at each other, of course, because it's what they do. It wasn't all peace and sun and roses but it was better than the crisis of the Invasion. Unless you were part of one of the endangered factions (Clan Smoke Jaguar, Federated Commonwealth, etc.).
A lot of new battle armor was introduced during the period between Tukayyid and the coming Jihad, what I'll call the "second generation". Most of these were first seen in the Field Manual sourcebooks and were conveniently later collected in
Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade. I believe most of these were originally available as sets of stands but are now available individually (or possibly in single stands). (I have a few stands of Longinus Battle Armor on my desk right now.)
- Clan
- Inner Sphere
- Achileus Battle Armor (originally 20-954, currently a set of 3 as BT-384)
- Cavalier Battle Armor (available singly as BT-028)
- Fa Shih Battle Armor (originally 20-973, currently a set of 3 as BT-390)
- Fenrir Battle Armor (originally 20-974, currently a set of 3 as BT-391)
- Infiltrator Mk. II Battle Armor (available singly as BT-031)
- Kage Battle Armor (originally 20-986, currently a set of 4 as BT-393)
- Kanazuchi Battle Armor (originally 20-952, currently available singly as BT-382)
- Longinus Battle Armor (originally 20-953, currently available as a set of 3 as BT-383)
- Purifier Adaptive Battle Armor (originally 20-965, currently available as a set of 3 as BT-389 or available signly in diffent poses as BT-190, BT-191, BT-192, BT-193, BT-194, and BT-195)
- Raiden Battle Armor (originally 20-979, currently available as a set of 3 as BT-392)
MW:DA also included plastic sculpts of all of these battle armor suits.
If you have any of these painted, points or squads or what have you, we'd all love to see pictures!
Like always, thank you for reading and espeically thank you to those of you who will post.
Our next two fortnights will be:
- Inner Sphere (1/14): Catapult
- Clan (1/28): Rifleman IIC
