Core Rulebook Reprints Now Available!

On February 16, 2022

We’ve got a raft of reprints of our core BattleTech rulebooks back in stock today, including some with never-before-seen covers, and all featuring updated, corrected errata.

Total Warfare

(Ninth Printing – Updated Errata)

Print+PDF: $39.99
PDF only: $14.99

THE FUTURE OF WARFARE!

It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars that rage across human-occupied space. As star empires clash, these epic wars are won and lost by BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and dozens of other lethal weapons; enough firepower to level entire city blocks. Your elite force of MechWarriors drives these juggernauts into battle, proudly holding your faction’s flag high, intent on expanding the power and glory of your realm. At their beck and call are the support units of armored vehicles, power armored infantry, aerospace fighters and more, wielded by a MechWarrior’s skillful command to aid him in ultimate victory. Will they become legends, or forgotten casualties? Only your skill and luck will determine their fate!

The product of more than twenty years of gaming experience, Total Warfare presents the rules of the BattleTech game system as never before. For the first time, all the rules for various units that have a direct impact on the deadly battlefields of the thirty-first century appear in a unified rules set: from BattleMechs to ProtoMechs, Combat Vehicles to Support Vehicles, infantry to aerospace fighters and DropShips. Interwoven and meticulously updated, Total Warfare provides the most detailed and comprehensive rules set published to date for BattleTech–the perfect companion for standard tournament play.

Total Warfare is the single-source rulebook for people who play BattleTech. It is not intended to teach new players the game, but rather to serve as a reference work for people who know the game, while introducing more technologies and expansive rules than appear in the basic box set. The introductory game in the BattleTech line is the BattleTech Introductory Box Set. New players should pick up that product before diving into this one. Construction rules for the various units presented in Total Warfare can be found in BattleTech TechManual.

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TechManual

(Sixth Printing – New Cover and Updated Errata. Please note, the print version of this volume incorrectly lists it as the “Fifth Printing.” The PDF version correctly notes it as the Sixth Printing. )

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PDF only: $14.99

The Gearhead’s Handbook

How does a MechWarrior interface with a BattleMech? How does a ProtoMech really work? When was the Gauss rifle or the Particle Projector Cannon developed? Or how can I just make my own, cool and unique BattleMech design? If you’ve ever been plagued by these questions, then get on your coveralls and make sure you’ve got your astech certification, because you’re about to dive into BattleTech construction!

A companion volume to Total Warfare, BattleTech: TechManual combines all the construction rules for the various units presented in that core rules set. Streamlined and updated, it contains all the core weaponry and equipment from previous rules set, as well as the newest, bleeding edge technologies. More than just a rulebook, however, the TechManual presents numerous sourcebook-style treatises, providing the in-universe context for these units and the technologies of their development. A must-have resource for any BattleTech afficionado!

Catalyst Game Labs web store (Print and PDF purchases): https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-techmanual-book-pdf?variant=26838065225
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Strategic Operations: Advanced Aerospace Rules

(Fourth Printing as “Strategic Operations”/ Second Printing as “Advanced Aerospace Rules” – New Cover and Updated Errata)

Print+PDF: $39.99
PDF Only: $14.99

FORCES IN SYSTEM

Liftoff planet and conquer an entire solar system! Deploy kilometer-long WarShips as escorts, first for JumpShips bridging the gulf between stars, then for detaching DropShips that burn in system to drop troops onto any battlefield. New aerospace tactics will allow you to gain air supremacy to match your grasp of ground tactics.

Strategic Operations is the one-source rulebook for advanced rules aerospace assets that open the entire conquest of a solar system. It includes new aerospace movement, combat and advanced aerospace unit construction rules.

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Campaign Operations

(Third Printing – New Cover and Updated Errata)

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PDF Only: $14.99

Forge your forces and prepare to fight any battle across the Inner Sphere! Campaign Operations completes the core rulebook series begun in Total Warfare. While previous rulebooks detailed game play at various levels–from a single MechWarrior, to a BattleMech company, to entire armies–this final volume focuses on the forces a player will build and run through any level of play.

Campaign Operations contains rules for creating and running forces, whether a down-on-their-luck mercenary battalion, or a fully-supplied House regiment. The volume also contains complete rules for devising solar systems, allowing players to recreate existing star systems or craft all-new worlds to challenge each other. The final sections of the book bring several options to the table for campaign play. Building off of previous sections in Total Warfare and Strategic Operations, the Narrative Campaign, Map-Based Campaign and Chaos Campaign rules allow players to build exciting, fun campaigns of almost any stripe for their newly-minted forces!

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BattleMech Manual

(Fifth printing – Updated Errata)

Print+PDF: $39.99
PDF Only: $14.99

Your Avatar Awaits!

   •   Standing from seven to sixteen meters tall, and weighing from twenty to one hundred tons
   •   Powered by an armored and shielded fusion reactor
   •   Skeleton of honeycombed, foamed aluminum core wrapped with stressed silicon carbide monofilament and sheathed by a rigid, titanium-steel shell
   •   Locomotion generated via bundles of polyacetylene-fiber myomer muscles
   •   Protected by aligned-crystal steel over a layer of boron nitride impregnated with diamond monofilaments Mounting a swath of powerful weapons from charged particle beams to lasers, missiles to rapid-fire autocannons
   •   All at the command of the noble elite, the MechWarriors
The modern BattleMech is the end result of more than three thousand years of battlefield technology development. Combining awesome destructive power and unparalleled maneuverability, the BattleMech is perhaps the most complex machine ever produced. The undisputed master of thirty-first century warfare, the BattleMech seems destined to reign supreme for centuries to come.

—Excerpts from a promotional pamphlet originally distributed by Defiance Industries of Hesperus, Lyran Commonwealth, 3007

Using the most up-to-date rules text, the BattleMech Manual has been designed from the ground up to cater to the BattleTech player wanting to engage in an all-’Mech battle. Includes a variety of optional rules, terrain and more.

Welcome to the most table-usage-friendly BattleTech rulebook ever published!

Catalyst Game Labs web store (Print and PDF purchases): https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-battlemech-manual-book-pdf-combo?variant=16087009427490
DriveThruRPG (PDF only): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/217189/BattleTech-BattleMech-Manual

Alpha Strike: Commander’s Edition

(Fourth Printing – Updated Errata)

Print+PDF: $39.99
PDF Only: $14.99

COMMAND YOUR DESTINY

In the BattleTech universe there remains one constant: the drums of war. And where there is war, valiant military commanders from the Great Houses, the Clans, and other interstellar nations lead the charge of hulking BattleMechs, brave infantry, and daring aerofighters to certain victory or crushing defeat on the sprawling battlefields of distant worlds. Rally your troops onward into the fray, and surge forth to triumph over the enemy.

Alpha Strike: Commander’s Edition collects into one handy volume the revised fast-play rules from the original Alpha Strike and the expanded rules from Alpha Strike Companion. Take command of large-scale engagements with tabletop-miniatures gameplay designed for the modern wargamer. Use the force-creation rules to marshal your armies, charge them into battle, and either reap the rewards of conquest or taste the bitter pill of defeat. The future of the Inner Sphere is in your hands!

Catalyst Game Labs web store (Print and PDF purchases): https://store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/battletech-alpha-strike-commanders-edition?variant=29056753598498
DriveThruRPG (PDF only): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/282217/BattleTech-Alpha-Strike-Commanders-Edition