![]() “Story fiction” includes novels, novellas, short stories and so on fiction that puts the reader inside the heads of the characters that populate the universe. ![]() Sourcebook Fiction: Outside of the games themselves, BattleTech uses two different types of fiction to convey its story. Looking to dive into the fiction of the universe? Start here. What empire will you swear allegiance to: a warrior merchant of House Steiner the vat-bred warriors of the Clans a mercenary that fights only for the highest bidder? Choose your life: a MechWarrior piloting the thirty-foot-tall BattleMechs that turn the tide of any battle a spy deep behind enemy lines discovering secrets a scientist unleashing the latest cutting edge technologies? How will YOU become a legend? This PDF comes with all the rules you need to leap into the roleplaying action of the BattleTech universe…you just bring the adventure! A Time of War Quick-Start Rulesįor those who immediately want to tackle role-playing in this universe, A Time of War is the BattleTechRPG. If you’re already a veteran of the Battletech board game, you can use your miniatures to play Alpha Strike!Ī roleplayer looking for a new, epic science fiction setting? Start here. The Alpha Strike Quick-Start Rules comes with everything you need to sample the game-including terrain templates and unit cards-all you need to try out the game is a pair of six-sided dice. The training missions will quickly guide you through a skirmish of just a pair of ‘Mechs, all the way up to a battle pitting a dozen battlemechs against their equal number. If you’re looking to experience BattleTech as a tabltetop miniatures game, start here. Each path below includes a link to the corresponding “Getting Started” page, providing a list and summary description of the books, games, and or fiction recommended for those starting down a given path. Once players have experienced the free PDFs below, they can move onto the full line of books & games supporting the BattleTech board game and universe. The following FREE downloadable PDF products will propel you directly into the BattleTech universe and game system in no time! They’re organized along the lines of the primary ways to enter the BattleTech experience as described above. Check out the portal site of for links to a variety of developing computer games. However, the universe has spawned a host of other experiences, most notably computer games (hence point 5 above). This site is dedicated to aspects 1 through 4, as noted above, of BattleTech. While the website is designed to provides details on how you can tailor BattleTech to your specific tastes, it’s ultimately up to you to delve in as far and as wide as you’d like, taking what you love and leaving anything else behind. ’Mech combat, the fiction and board game players as much a fan of the computers games as any electronic-only gamer, and so on. ![]() While the avenues above are the primary ones, often players mix and match all aspects, with board gamers reading all the fiction, or the roleplayers rotating to the board game during ’Mech vs. It’s important to note that what makes BattleTech so enjoyable is there is no “right way” to enjoy it. There are five ways in which people enjoy the BattleTech universe. In the free BattleTech Primer PDF above (it’s 68 megs, so may load slow depending upon your internet connection) we will skim the surface of BattleTech’s incredibly rich fictional setting. Initially published thirty-five years ago as a tabletop board game, BattleTech has gone on to become one of the gaming industry’s most important and longest-lasting science-fiction universes. These epic wars are won and lost by BattleMechs, 30-foot-tall humanoid metal titans bristling with lasers, autocannons and many other lethal weapons enough firepower to level entire city blocks.” “It is the 31st century, a time of endless wars in which star empires clash across human-occupied space. BattleTech is a science-fiction “space opera”: a factional, militarized universe set in the thirty-first century, a future where humanity has spread to the stars and spawned titanic interstellar empires, each nation controlling hundreds of worlds across a region of space stretching a thousand light years and beyond. ![]()
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