Note: These are selections from several other products. Even primitive ‘Mechs not seen in over half a millennia once again appear on the battlefield.īattleTech Record Sheets: Jihad offers players the record sheets for all the ‘Mechs detailed in BattleTech Technical Readout: Jihad, 281 in total. This era saw bleeding edge machines march off to war, while venerable ‘Mechs continued to receive upgrades and facelifts. There are four new pieces of artwork: FLE-16 Flea, OTT-7J Ostscout, GLH-1D Galahad, and BNC-3S Banshee.November 3067 saw the culmination of work two centuries in the making, work begun by Primus Conrad Toyama of ComStar, successor to Jerome Blake and the man responsible for single-handedly turning ComStar into a pseudo-religious organization with a vision: to lead mankind to the light.īut then the Second Star League collapsed.ĭenied their dream, the Blakists fought to preserve the Star League against the follies of the Great Houses, its fanaticism manifested as the Jihad: a horrific war that pitted every nation against each other.Three entries are not reprints from the listed TROs: Talos, originally appearing in Historical: Reunification War Rampage, originally appearing in Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2 and the FLE-16 Flea, apparently new material. The Icarus II ICR-1S is present in the volume despite being excluded from the table of contents, though the normal page header is also missing from the entry the 1S designator can only be found in the text.Star League Loremaster Stephan Roshak, 9 July 3250 Each machine is illustrated in detail, and accompanied by a description of its history, capabilities, game stats, along with their most famous pilots. Combining the 'Mechs previously found in Technical Readout: 3039, Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade, Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, and Technical Readout: 3075, this volume features some of the most common 'Mechs from the Age of War to the Succession Wars. Technical Readout: Succession Wars is the perfect "first Technical Readout" companion to the BattleMech Manual. However, the discovery of the Helm Memory Core unlocked the technological potential to develop new BattleMechs and experimental technologies for the first time in centuries. The fall of the Star League and the Succession Wars that raged for centuries afterward took their toll and by the Fourth Succession War, the technology employed on the battlefields was a mere shadow of what it once was. BattleMechs reached their pinnacle during the golden age of the Star League. The BattleMech-King of the Battlefield-was born. On February 5, 2439, the Mackie obliterated all opposition during its first combat trial, ushering in a new era of warfare. This book was the inaugural publication in the effort to reorganize the Technical Readouts by Era versus by Year, in an attempt to make the series more friendly to new users. Conversely, a few 'Mech designs were omitted because of (new) Unseen concerns even though some of these (including namely the Stinger, Wasp, Phoenix Hawk, Rifleman, Archer, Warhammer, Marauder, and Longbow) were extremely common to the point of being iconic in the Succession Wars timeframe. While most of the book's content is taken verbatim from Technical Readout products that preceded it, a small number of new art pieces (see notes) and entirely new variants are included. This is first volume in a series of Technical Readout by Era, which is designed as an introductory companion volume to go with the BattleMech Manual, and thus primarily addressing new players, Technical Readout: Succession Wars is a compilation of 'Mech designs from Technical Readout: 3039, Technical Readout: 3050 Upgrade, Technical Readout: 3058 Upgrade, and Technical Readout: 3075 with a selection of designs stretching from the Age of War to the cusp of Clan Invasion in a single book.
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