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The BattleTech 1 & BattleMech 1 wargaming franchise includes many authorized titles in various face personality genres, including tabletop wargames, role-playing games, collectible card games and video arcade PS1 and PC computer games.
A key feature of the BattleTech universe is the absence of non-human intelligent life. Other than one or two isolated encounters in novels, mankind is the only sentient species. Above all, the central theme of BattleTech is conflict, consistent with the franchise's wargaming core. [1]
The BattleTech Trading Card Game was designed by Richard Garfield, the designer of Magic: The Gathering; both games use a similar style of gameplay and card distribution.. It was produced from November 1996 through 2001 [dubious – discuss], [2] and features BattleMechs, characters, and technology from the original BattleTech board game, with new artwork done by various artis
In January 2019, Piranha Games unveiled the pre-order for Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries called the Community Edition that enabled fans to preorder the game and receive a set of digital extras for the game (manuals, mech skins, soundtrack) as well as in-game currency and new mech chassis in Mechwarrior: Online [10].
MechWarrior: Dark Age (MWDA; later as Age of Destruction or AOD) was a tabletop wargame by WizKids set in the BattleTech universe that uses the Clix system.The game's miniatures are pre-painted models of infantry squads, vehicles, and giant walking war machines known as BattleMechs or more simply "'mechs".
Within the MechWarrior games, players take control of a single BattleMech and combat other BattleMechs, tanks, infantry, and more, from within the cockpit of their machine. A third-person alternate view is available in MechWarrior 2, 3, 4, Online, and 5.
The player is a pilot of a BattleMech or 'Mech, the iconic war machines in the BattleTech universe. Mercenaries has the player piloting a 'Mech and running a mercenary company at the same time. The company is sponsored by one of four mercenary outfits in the BattleTech universe—the Kell Hounds, Gray Death Legion, Northwind Highlanders, and ...
(A Bonfire of Worlds was in fact initially advertised with a Battletech: Dark Age logo, but a later printed version reverted back to the more traditional BattleTech nomenclature.) [4] Catalyst Game Labs had received the rights to publish both Classic and Dark Age book lines in June 2007 and had scheduled new works to resume in the fall of 2009.