BattleTech September/October Street Dates

The following products have a Street Date of SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2013:

Technical Readout: 3145 ($39.99)
The great experiment that was the Republic of the Sphere has failed. Withdrawn behind the Fortress walls, the once-great power has become a silent, opaque remnant of its former glory. Without its influence, old hatreds have risen anew. As war once more rages across the Inner Sphere, new equipment strides across ancient battlefields. Technology, once stagnated by trade restrictions and peace treaties, now surges forward again, testing these new machines in the fierce crucible of war.

Technical Readout: 3145 introduces the wave of new battle armor, vehicle, ‘Mech, and aerospace units appearing across the Inner Sphere in the Dark Age era. Featuring new equipment described in Era Report:3145 and Field Manual 3145, this book brings players an update on the advancing technologies used in the battlefields of the thirty-second century.

Fire For Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Vol 4 ($14.99)
A massive invasion fleet is destroyed almost to a man. Legions of soldiers, confident of victory, are cut down before they even reach the ground. Those that do make landfall are bombarded and shattered and rained with nuclear fire. Elsewhere, veterans long retired from combat are called back to duty by desperate times. Explorers comb unknown worlds for hints to explain deadly evils.

Seventeen stories of combat, honor, betrayal and death fill the pages of Fire for Effect: BattleCorps Anthology Volume 4.

Savvy readers will recognize now-familiar names in BattleTech lore among the authors: Steven Mohan, Jr., Kevin Killiany, Phaedra Weldon, Jason Schmetzer, Jason Hardy and Herbert Beas. These writers have shaped the direction of the BattleTech universe. In 2007, with these stories, they took the fictional storylines of the BattleTech universe to new and violent heights. Worlds rose and fell, and empires toppled. Armies of BattleMechs and fleets of WarShips fought and perished.

And beneath all of it, the spidery tendrils of the Word of Blake sowed mistrust and conflict in every realm.

The following products have a Street Date of OCTOBER 9TH, 2013:

Alpha Strike ($39.99)
For centuries, the armies of the Great Houses have fought to reclaim the glory of the fallen Star League, sending regiments of their elite MechWarriors into battle across hundreds of worlds as humanity slid inexorably toward a new Dark Age. The coming of the Clans—descendants of the lost Star League army—did little to stem the slaughter.

It only raised the stakes.

Alpha Strike is a new, fast-playing form of the BattleTech game of futuristic, armored combat. Developed for the modern tabletop miniatures wargamer, this book brings players the ability to wage war on land, sea, and air using the Quick-Strike game system first devised for truly large-scale play, re-scaled to the tactical level of “classic” BattleTech. Complete with sample armies and a ready-to-play campaign system, all you need besides this book are dice, miniatures, and tabletop terrain to fight for control over the Inner Sphere on land, sea, and air—one world at a time!

Alpha Kit ($14.99)
Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Alpha Strike game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Alpha Kit is for you!

The Alpha Kit contains several heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from Alpha Strike.

Tech Kit ($14.99)
Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Total Warfare game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Tech Kit is for you!

Also includes a brand new BattleMech blueprint poster!

The Tech Kit contains seven heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from TechManual.

Strategic Kit ($14.99)
Tired of hunting for a specific table in a rulebook? Wish you had heavy-duty reference cards for Total Warfare game play like that found in the Introductory Box Set? Then the Strategic Kit is for you!

The Strategic Kit contains five heavy-duty cards of compiled tables from Strategic Operations.