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Generally, BattleTech assumes that its history is identical to real-world history up until approximately 1984, when the reported histories begin to diverge; in particular, the game designers did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, which plays a major role past 1991 in the fictional BattleTech history. Individual lifestyles remain largely ...
BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction is a non-fiction book published by Catalyst Game Labs in 2009 about the science fiction wargame BattleTech.It includes artwork, a description of the development of the game, an historical timeline of in-game history, and twenty pieces of fiction by authors such as Michael A. Stackpole, Robert Charrette and Victor Milán.
BattleTech is a turn-based multiplayer game, typically played on a map divided into hexagonal grids with figurines or counters representing military units. Paper record sheets provide detailed information about each unit, including its armament, armor and equipment, and are used to track damage, heat buildup, ammunition and various other data.
BattleTech shares a setting with the original board game, now called Classic BattleTech.The game takes place during the 3025 Succession Wars Era, in which powerful noble houses employ an ever-shrinking number of giant fighting vehicles called battlemechs ('mechs for short), piloted by individuals called MechWarriors, to fight for control of the Inner Sphere.
(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.
BattleTech 3025 (Later 3026)* 1991-Volunteers: MUSE BattleTech 3056* 1993-Volunteers: MUSE BattleTech 3030* 1994-Volunteers: MUSE (Later incarnation changed to TinyMUX code after the success of the spinoff game Varxsis) BattleTech: The Frontier Lands* Inner Sphere 3028* MUX: Invasion3042* 2006-2014: Volunteers: Windows MechWarrior: Living ...
FASA published BattleTech, a blend of wargame and role-playing game, in 1984, and published many supplements for it.One of these was The Fourth Succession War Military Atlas Volume 1, designed by Sam Lewis, James Long, Michael Lee, Blaine Pardoe and Boy Petersen, with illustrations by Roger Loveless and John Marcus, and cover art by Jim Holloway. [3]
With the demise of FASA Corporation in 2001, publishing of the original BattleTech novel series came to an end. When WizKids acquired the rights to the future of the BattleTech Franchise (re-christened as MechWarrior), they approached several of the established BattleTech authors including Randall N. Bills and Michael A. Stackpole to resurrect the novel franchise. [2]