New January/February Street Dates

The following products have a Street Date of JANUARY 25th, 2012:

Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade ($29.99)

In 3055, a new breed of Inner Sphere BattleMech started rolling off assembling lines—’Mechs specifically designed to counter the Clan invasion—at the same time that secondline Clan ’Mechs began to appear. By 3067 those design have become a staple of the modern battlefield, giving rise to notable MechWarriors and new variants, while the demands of the ever-popular Solaris VII Games have resulted in a plethora of new dueling ’Mechs designed using prototype technology.

Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade presents the Solaris VII ’Mechs built using prototype technologies. Upgraded in appearance and technology, the designs first presented in the Solaris VII box set and Solaris: The Reaches are now back in print, along with several new Solaris VII designs. In addition to the upgraded appearance of selected Clan designs, all the art work for Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade is new, providing fresh illustrations of now classic Inner Sphere BattleMechs and Clan OmniFighters.

The ’Mechs in the Solaris VII BattleMechs section are constructed using select equipment found in Tactical Operations. To use those designs, players will need that book.

NOTE: This is a Catalyst-branded reprint, with a new cover and including all appropriate errata. No other changes have been made.

Record Sheets: 3055 Upgrade ($12.99)

You’ve grasped the tactics involved with the additional units and weapons from Total Warfare to defeat your opponents. Now you own Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade and want to deploy some of those ’Mechs, vehicles, and battle armor on your gaming table. Grab your dice and start rolling, because these sheets are for you!

Record Sheets: 3055 Upgrade is a companion to Technical Readout: 3055 Upgrade, containing 80 preprinted ’Mech—and 12 Clan aerospace fighter—record sheets that will have players firing autocannons, missiles and PPCs at each other in no time. The extensive Rules Addendum of this record sheet brings Solaris: The Gaming World to your table tops with rules for playing as a member of a MechWarrior stable, running arena scenarios, and even how to modify any map sheet into several of the most famous gladitorial arenas!

The Solaris VII BattleMechs are constructed using select equipment found in Tactical Operations. To use those designs, players will need that book.

The following product has a Street Date of FEBRUARY 1ST, 2012:

BattleTech 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set ($59.95) [Reprint Now Available]

Strap yourself into the ultimate suit of armor: the BattleMech. Thirty feet tall and weighing up to a hundred tons, this humanoid engine of destruction is a walking arsenal with enough firepower to level a city block. The BattleTech game system takes you into the world of the 31st Century, where war has become a way of life. You are a MechWarrior. You are in command of the most powerful machine on the battlefield, and hold the fate of empires in your hand!

The BattleTech 25th Anniversary Introductory Box Set thrusts you onto the battlefields of the 31st century. This box contains everything needed to play:

• 24 unpainted, ready-to-play plastic BattleMech minis
• 2 unpainted, premium-quality plastic BattleMech minis
• One 12-page full-color quick-start rulebook will have players into the action in minutes
• 36-page book of pre-generated BattleMech Record Sheets
• One 80-page full-color rulebook
• Inner Sphere at a Glance, a 56-page full-color book of universe background and BattleMech technical data
• One 16-page full-color Painting and Tactics Guide
• Two heavy-duty cards of compiled tables
• Two 18″ x 24″ game-board quality maps