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Sartris
CR 21 Bullshit Elemental
« on: 11 February 2015, 12:31:40 »
(this will require a bit of an update once the dust settles from the kickstarter. i hesitate to add too many things that you won't be able to buy until next spring. in the meantime, go support the kickstarter!)
Like for thousands of others, the intro box is one of the primary entrepôts into the BattleTech Universe. You've acquired a modest force of eight 'Mechs (or ten if you went ham and also picked up the beginner box) and played a few games. So what now? How do you decide how to expand your experience in the face of thirty years of options? As it turns out, there are some natural inroads if you know where to look.
Though BattleTech is a game with an articulated and varied thematic periodization, the purpose of this guide is not to conform your interests to any specific era, but to provide scaffolded purchasing options based on what you already have. As you immerse yourself in the fiction of the BattleTech Universe, you will be able to make your own decisions about which era or eras you are most drawn to. Some enjoy employing the tech on the most bleeding edge while others have remained firmly ensconced in the same source material available in 1987. The key is to have fun.
I have redesigned this guide to reflect new releases like the BattleMech Manual,Technical Readout: Succession Wars, and other upcoming products. I assume you, as a new player, are here for the giant, stompy robot action so the majority of my suggestions are geared toward 'Mech vs 'Mech combat. That said, I will provide some outlets for combined arms options. I have also intentionally omitted discussion of Alpha Strike, the abstracted, faster-playing BattleTech ruleset. I am not well-versed in the system or how to approach it as a new player so I will defer to someone more experienced with and passionate about Alpha Strike to write that particular guide. I have also shied away from A Time of War. Again, I will leave promotion of the RPG system to someone who can do it justice with a more convincing sales pitch than I could provide.
Products listed in this document are available at store.catalystgamelabs.com or drivethrurpg.com.
If you are a returning player looking to get caught up on the changes to the game since you've been gone, I recommend the excellent primer prepared by mbear found here.
If you have any further questions, comments, insults, etc, feel free to reply to this thread.
Navigating the Timeline
The Game Universe
Resources and Freebies
The BattleTech Universe is vast and contains no less than eleven officially articulated eras (I've grouped them into broader thematic categories below). The complexity does not inherently increase in a linear fashion from one era to another, however. The Star League was more technologically advanced than the Succession Wars. Primitive gear came back into use during the Jihad alongside bleeding-edge prototypes. The key is to find what you find most enjoyable. Remember that the timeline was not developed in a linear fashion. The Universe was born in media res, grounded in the year 3025, with sourcebooks produced detailing various events through about 3030. 1989's Twenty Year Update catapulted the timeline forward two decades, with the intervening years only receiving significant treatment after 2003. The Star League Era, originally portrayed as a lost Utopia received significant treatment in 2012. I mention this to help explain why certain periods are much more "filled out" with Catalyst products than others. Many of the older sourcebooks books are available via PDF.
For a breakdown of modern (ie post-FASA) sourcebooks by era, check out my thread here. My FASA sourcebook index can be found here.
From Colonizers to Galactic Empire
Age of War (2005-2570)
Star League (2571-2780)
Things Fall Apart
Early Succession Wars (2781-2900)
Late Succession Wars - LostTech (2901-3019) <-- Beginner Box and GoAC Box fiction are set in this period
Late Succession Wars - Renaissance (3020-3049)
Unrelenting Conflict
Clan Invasion (3050-3061)
FedCom Civil War (3062-3067)
Word of Blake Jihad (3068-3085)
Darkness and Fire
Early Republic (3086-3100)
Late Republic (3101-3130)
Dark Ages (3131-3150)
With the success of the first manned jumpship in 2107, humanity gained the ability to leap from one star system to the next. Over the next four centuries, leap they would to every star they could reach. From this rapid and massive colonization effort sprung the embryos of the current interstellar empires. As these new protostates grew, they eventually grasped for the same resources and, predictably, descended into a brutal period known as the Age of War. During this series of bloody conflicts, the BattleMech emerged with the Terran Hegemony introducing the Mackie in 2439, changing warfare forever. All of humankind would eventually be brought under the banner of the Star League either by treaty or force by 2600.
The unified interstellar empire of man imploded upon itself in 2766 after the usurper Stephan Amaris murdered the ruling family of the Star League, seized control of the Terran Hegemony, and left the Successor Lords of the five client states to bicker amongst themselves for supremacy. In their mutual grab for power, they collectively rebuked the savior from the Amaris tyranny, General Alexandr Kerensky. Stilted, Kerensky chose self-exile and fled the Inner Sphere with the bulk of the Star League's massive army rather than allow them to be cannibalized in what he believed would ultimately be a futile war. The subsequent First (2786-2821) and Second (2830-2864) Succession Wars unleashed savage destruction that killed untold billions and caused advanced technology to almost completely disappear by the mid-thirtieth century.
The Third Succession War (2866-3025), marked a period of low-intensity warfare, rife with border raids and reprisals but few major operations. In 3028, two of the five interstellar empires, the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth formed an alliance and attempted to swallow another in the Capellan Confederation in numerically-consistent Fourth Succession War (3028-3030). About the same time, the legendary mercenary unit, the Gray Death Legion, uncovered a facility containing schematics for extinct Star League technologies on the planet Helm.
Through the 3030s and 3040s, each Successor State worked independently to bring lost technologies back into production and successfully made several breakthroughs thanks to the Helm Core's data, with a complete recovery of Star League weapons and equipment by the late 3040s. While such weapon systems had been recovered in anticipation of doing further battle with each other, the Successor States' ambitions of reuniting the Star League was thwarted in early 3050 with the sudden return of General Kerensky's children, now reformed as the Clans – a hyper-militaristic society armed to the teeth with more advanced technologies than had ever been seen in the Inner Sphere. The warriors from beyond the periphery had come on a crusade to bring the now-sundered empire of man to heel under their own vision of the Star League.
In the moment of maximum crisis as planet after planet fell to the clan onslaught, ComStar, the mysterious and purportedly neutral steward of the network of Hyperpulse Generators that made interstellar communication possible, unveiled their secret army that had been hidden the shadows for centuries. Anastasius Focht, Precentor Marshal of ComStar's hidden army, challenged the invading clans to a proxy battle on the planet of Tukayyid. Miraculously, the untested ComGuard army defeated the combined forces of the Clans and bought the Inner Sphere a fifteen-year reprieve.
As you noticed earlier, there is substantially more history to the BattleTech Universe – another entire century! But for simplicity's sake I'm going to stop before the massive influx of new Mech chassis appearing between 3055 and 3075 (also I'm up against the post size limit). The material available for the above-outlined history will provide you with more than enough material to get to started.
If you would like a more in-depth history of the Inner Sphere to the year 3067, check out the Universe Guide. It's a free PDF that had been included in the various iterations of the box set since around 2002.
UNDERSTANDING THE PRODUCT LINE
Beginning in 2006 with Total Warfare, Catalyst began releasing the current generation of full rules. Each adds added layers of complexity to your games.
Depending on your needs and tastes, you may prefer either the BattleMech Manual or Total Warfare. Both provide a fuller game experience in rules and options, but in different ways.
BattleMech Manual:
* Rules for 'Mechs only
* Includes a number (but not all) of advanced weapons, equipment, and optional rules from Tactical Operations
* Quirks to customize your 'Mech's performance
* Abstract battlefield support system that makes adding artillery and airstrikes easier than ever.
Total Warfare:
* In addition to 'Mechs, rules for most vehicle types including vehicles, aerospace, and infantry
* Total Warfare + Tactical Operations gives you the full spread of equipment and advanced rules (does not include quirks or the abstract support system)
OTHER CORE RULEBOOKS
A number of other rulebooks can add depth and complexity to your games. I consider Tactical Operations to be the most essential of the set as it covers equipment that becomes more and more common as the timeline advances as well as rules for mines, artillery, and a variety of gameplay options.
TechManual: Construction rules for BattleMechs, IndustrialMechs, Protomechs, combat vehicles, support vehicles, infantry, battle armor, and aerospace units. TM also contains the formulas for BattleValue 2.0 if you're the kind of lunatic that does that sort of thing by hand.
Tactical Operations: Additional rules for movement, combat, advanced buildings, advanced support vehicles, and diverse and extreme environmental conditions. As mentioned above, also includes rules for artillery and mines as well as a host of advanced equipment. Contains construction rules for advanced support vehicles as well as the advanced equipment.
Strategic Operations: Advanced aerospace rules including adding warships to space battles. Additionally contains Maintenance, Repair, Salvage, and Customization rules for campaign play. SO also presents the rules for BattleForce, a faster playing version of BattleTech for large engagements as well as the miniature rules for standard play.
Interstellar Operations: Detailing of BattleTech's various eras including era-specific equipment (including Land-Air 'Mechs). Contains the Universal Technology Advancement Table detailing the progress of military technology from the Age of War through the Dark Ages. Includes the strategic combat system Inner Sphere at War, the BattleTech version of a conquer the world board game.
Campaign Operations: Complete rules for building and managing a combat command from the ground up, unit types, special pilot abilities, and solar system creation. Contains the most recent revisions to the Chaos Campaign system, an accounting-light system used across a number of products. Allows for the creation of custom scenarios and campaigns.
The following products will help fill out the broad and varied BattleTech Universe. I have limited my discussion to products actively produced by Catalyst (or at least has received relatively recent support)
Era Reports and Digests
These publications give a synopsis of the political and military situations of the various factions during that particular era. These are setting books designed to flesh out the universe. Era Reports are full-sized sourcebooks while Era Digests tend to run around fifty pages and are PDF-only. The Era Reports also contain a number of Chaos Campaign missions specific to that era.
Sourcebooks that focus on events from eras not in our "present" (as of right now ca 3145-50). These range from the Reunification War of the 26th century that brought the Periphery forcefully into the Star League to Kerensky's campaign to oust Amaris to conflicts of the late 31st-early 32nd century. Note that the First and Second Succession Wars sourcebooks are historicals in all but name (their product codes are sequential with the rest of the series).
Unlike Era Reports, these sourcebooks deal exclusively with military command and control of each major faction. Most regiments get "here's what they've been up to since the last update" paragraph - If they survived (the beginning of the Clan Invasion and the Jihad are especially notorious for the combat commands that more or less ceased to exist - ask a vet who knows the backstory about the demise of the Black Thorns).
Record Sheets - Unabridged
PDF-only product that contains most of the known variants (at the time of publication) for units featured in the TROs.
Unit histories of some of the smaller, but more colorful units in BattleTech history. Each volume provides the unit's history, capabilities, and order of battle over two eras.
Technical Readouts (TROs)
These represent the bread and butter of BattleTech books going back to the 1980s. Each volume is a hardware catalog for units debuting (or rediscovered) around the date on the cover. TROs generally contain in-universe writeups for each unit that gives a brief synopsis of its development history, capabilities, deployment, and sometimes exploits of famous pilots who utilized that unit. Also included is bare-bones construction data for the variant featured. Game rules are generally not included. While TROs are not mandatory purchases, they act as a critical glue to the BattleTech Universe, giving some background and substance in an attempt to elevate BattleMechs beyond mere playing pieces.
Touring the Stars
PDF-exclusive product highlights an eclectic mix of human-inhabited worlds across BT's history - both active and abandoned. Included in each writeup is a planetary history, ecology, seed ideas for a roleplaying group, and a planetary map for use with large-scale campaigns.
Catalyst released the Chaos Campaign several years ago as a flexible, streamlined, abstracted campaign system for tracking unit missions and resources (I personally run Chaos Campaigns and post-mission accounting often takes less than fifteen minutes). The Turning Points series of PDF campaigns allows for players to create random forces or insert their own units in a wide variety of conflict throughout the BattleTech timeline.
CGL has announced they will be producing the first new paper maps in over a decade. Map Pack: Grasslands is now available.
PURCHASING GUIDE: FIRST PURCHASES
GAME ESSENTIALS
MapPack: Grasslands
Contains six double-sided maps for twelve unique options to expand your battlefield size and variety. Larger playing areas significantly impact how the game is played (for the better).
SETTING SOURCEBOOKS
House Arano: The Aurigan Coalition
Based on the source material from HBS's BattleTech video game, House Arano picks up where the game leaves off with the Restoration completed. Found within is a comprehensive description of Aurigan culture, society, and military strength along with profiles of major personalities. The book also contains a number of scenarios that are directly compatible with nothing but the GoAC box. Also included are descriptions and record sheets several new vehicles used in the 31st century periphery. Use of these combat units requires rules found in Total Warfare. Note: This product is currently only available on drivethrurpg.com as both a PDF and Print on Demand softcover.
MILITARY EQUIPMENT AND YOU
Technical Readout: Succession Wars
With the release of the Mech-centric BattleMech Manual, Catalyst has released a compilation volume of designs from the Age of War in the 2500s through the Fourth Succession War, ending in 3030. These Mechs utilize a variety of technologies, including advanced equipment common during the Star League before the savage destruction of the early Succession Wars. Of the nearly one hundred designs included, about two-thirds can be plugged directly into your games using the GoAC rules. The remaining units require the Clan Invasion Box Rules, BattleMech Manual, orTotal Warfare. Again, TROs aren't required, but they give life and meaning to your combat units.
Technical Readout: Clan Invasion
Kerensky's descendants returned to the Inner Sphere in 3050 to reunite the Star League of the Great Father by force. This volume provides a sampling of the forces used by both the Clans and the evolving resistance put up by the Great Houses between 3050 and 3062. Both the frighteningly powerful Clan armaments and the evolving Inner Sphere response will require the Clan Invasion Box Rules, BattleMech Manual, orTotal Warfare.
Record Sheets: Succession Wars
Provides nearly 300 variants to the 93 mechs presented in TRO: Succession Wars - including a number of new variants to units in the Beginner and GoAC boxes. This is a PDF-only product.
Technical Readouts 3039 and 3050 Upgrade
Each of these volumes provides an alternate presentation vis a vis TROs Succession Wars and Clan Invasion. While TRO: 3039 contains significant overlap with the 'Mechs from TRO: Succession Wars, this volume includes vehicles and aerospace fighters usable in a combined arms environment. TRO: 3050 Upgrade includes vehicles and aerospace fighters of the Star League in addition to a number of upgrades to Inner Sphere 'Mechs found in TRO: Succession Wars.
Other Record Sheet Books
As previously mentioned, TRO: Succession Wars is a compilation product made up of entries from several other TROs: 3039, 3050 Upgrade, 3058 Upgrade, and the Age of War section in TRO: 3075. Each of these TROs has its own attendant record sheet volume (or volumes) that contain additional variants for the units in TRO: Succession Wars, as well as a number of units not contained in that volume. How do you know which to buy? Fear not, as I have compiled a list of what is found in each, including how many repeats are present. See the Google Sheet at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EOR2xIbMmAS0w3RJcBideJAzc-NTEjeXMyepm4NVSU4/edit?usp=sharing
PURCHASING GUIDE: EXPANDING YOUR FORCES
CGL will commenced a kickstarter on July 17th to fund a Clan Invasion box set - as part of the stretch goals for this KS are individual Lance (Inner Sphere) and Star (Clan) packs stuffed with classic Clan and IS designs reimagined in the new style found in the GoAC box. These models are expected to reach retail eventually.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/450703636/battletech-clan-invasion/description
Iron Wind Metals produces the vast majority of BattleMechs in pewter. Most require between some and substantial assembly. You'll need a hobby knife, a metal file, superglue, a pin vice, and a little patience. I started as an absolute beginner around 2009 and have since assembled over a thousand minis with my big clumsy hands so it's certainly within your grasp. I have started working on a database of miniature difficulty ratings for the models sold by IWM that can be found on this Google Sheet.
Iron Wind Metals Box Set Cross-Promotion Bundle Deals
Until the end of 2020, IWM has inserted a flyer into the Beginner Box with coupon codes for three starter packs of mechs. These models are re-issues of the former beginner sets (which are also metal versions of the 24 mechs contained in the Introductory Box Sets), and some of the less intensive Clan omnis. These models that contain a small number of pieces, which means minimal gluing. The discount means you'll be paying less than $10 per mini, which is a hefty savings and a good way to kickstart your army with ubiquitous designs usable in most eras of play.
Find the bundles here. The prices listed to not reflect the coupon.
Out of Print Box Sets and Alpha Strike Lance Packs
While both of these remain options, they are becoming exceedingly expensive and use sculpts far inferior to those of the Kickstarter.
The Free Option
Finally, if you're desperate for playing pieces and don't want to make any serious investments, I have devised several sets of paper standups. They are not ideal, but the price is right.
http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php?topic=53689.0
PURCHASING GUIDE: LET'S SHOOT SOMETHING
Right. This is a war game, after all. If you want your games to have some additional story and structure, consider the following modules:
SUCCESSION WARS-ERA CHAOS CAMPAIGN
This free product set in the same era as the GoAC box set initiates players to the Chaos Campaign system used in a number of BattleTech products and provides a framework for basic, generic campaigns as well as suggestions for more interesting mission types and advance rules like minefields.
What you need: GoAC box, Record Sheets: Succession Wars, and (optional) Map Pack: Grasslands
SUCCESSION WARS-ERA TURNING POINTS
Whether you use the Chaos Campaign rules from the free pdf or Campaign Operations, you can start playing out your own modest custom campaigns within the late Succession Wars era (i.e. the GoAC box rules are all you need). Catalyst has published four such PDF-exclusive scenarios:
What you need: GoAC box, Chaos Campaign Rules, appropriate record sheets. In scenarios that call for vehicles or infantry, Total Warfare will be required if you plan not to substitute these units. Note that these volumes will recommend specific maps and unit random acquisition tables (RATs) from other books to broaden your unit choices or optional rules from Tactical Operations to simulate local planetary weather. Don't fret, all of these are optional and the Chaos Campaign rules will function normally without them.
Historical Turning Points: Mallory's World: Decide the fate of First Prince Ian Davion in this highly consequential campaign
Historical Turning Points: Galtor: Hanse Davion sets a trap for Kurita forces by luring them with the irresistible draw of unearthed Star League technology. But what happens when the lie turns out to be true?
Historical Turing Points: Misery: The Inner Sphere's most dangerous and respected mercenary force battles House Kurita in an epic honor duel.
Operational Turning Points: Death to Mercenaries: The Dragon was not content to let the Dragoons rest in the aftermath of Misery. Recreate battles across four planets as Wolf's Dragoons fight for their survival. This is a larger campaign than the previous three.
STARTERBOOK: SWORD AND DRAGON
What you need: GoAC Box
Two famous independent combat commands battle along the Davion-Kurita border on the cusp of the Clan Invasion. This volume gives players a taste of prototype equipment that would become common in the Clan Invasion. It also provides a framework for upgrading stock units with cutting-edge prototypes. Rules for fighting to the death hand to hand with common tools not included.
CAMPAIGNS IN OTHER ERAS
What you need: GoAC Box, BattleMech Manual and/or Total Warfare, record sheets for units from TRO: Succession Wars, TRO: 3050 Upgrade, and TRO: 3039 if you plan to use vehicles
The easiest way to design and play campaigns in the Star League era (ca. 2750) and early Clan Invasion (ca. 3049-54) is to pick up the corresponding Era Reports. Each contains a complete framework for designing and playing interconnected scenarios within the given timeframes.
HISTORY LESSON: GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ESTRANGED FAMILY: ORIGINS OF KERENSKY'S CLANS
In my extraordinarily short summary above, I mentioned that after the Amaris Civil War of the 2760s and 70s, Alexandr Kerensky chose self-imposed exile from the Inner Sphere rather than allow his army to be cannibalized and chewed up by the House Lords. The descendants of those exiles returned with a vengeance in 3049 as the Clans. How did the SLDF-in-exile transform into the militant tsunami bent on total conquest?
These two volumes briefly cover the arrival the SLDF in their new home, the brutal civil war and formation of a nascent Clan society, and the rise of hyper-advanced technology surpassing anything produced by the Star League.
Chaos Campaign: I have mentioned the Chaos Campaign several times. You can get the barebones version for free here.
www.MasterUnitList.info: An official total resource for virtually every canon BattleTech including faction availability by era.
www.Sarna.net: The BattleTech Wiki filled with thousands of articles big and small on countless aspects of the BattleTech Universe.
www.MegaMek.org: An unofficial computerized version of BattleTech you can play against other people all over the world or against a bot. It implements the vast majority of game rules, including advanced options and a plethora of unofficial rules. Make sure your Java installation is up to date.
MegaMekLab: An editor that allows you to design your own custom units and print record sheets for virtually all known BattleTech units. Find the newest versions of the MegaMek suite of programs here
www.SolarisSkunkWerks.com: Popular 'Mech and vehicle design software recently taken up by a new dev team. As a user for several years before moving on to MML, I can attest to its quality.
Fletch's Sheets - Online sheets with a twist - they allow for a certain level of interactive recordkeeping as you play. Interface is smooth and easy to use.
www.Mordel.net: Need full stats for a 'Mech? Want a PDF of the record sheet? I don't use it personally, but it's a super high-quality effort that deserves a look.
Building, Fire, and Smoke Counters: Cutout counters for adding depth to your games. Link
Xotl's Random Force Tables: Among the finest, best researched fan-created tables produced, these random tables will help build faction-flavored forces for the first half of the 31st century. Link
I hope this helps. Suggestions for improving this document are always welcome. There is a lot to explore in this crazy universe. The pool is really deep if you want to dive that far. The key is to take on only what you're comfortable with and have fun.
04 May 2018 - Total teardown to accommodate the new Game of Armored Combat Box
23 Jan 2019 - IT'S FINALLY HERE!
04 Feb 2019 - Look ma, it got stickied!
17 Jan 2020 - Small edits to save character count, added freebies
« Last Edit: 17 January 2020, 22:36:10 by Sartris »
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Re: You bought the box set and are ready to expand your BT experience. Now what?
« Reply #1 on: 11 February 2015, 14:13:58 »
Thanks Sartris for taking the time to write this up. As a new player this is extremely helpful.
ColBosch
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Frabby
Excellent introduction document! O0
I have a few editorial suggestions that I will PM you later when I have more time. It's minor stuff really.
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pheonixstorm
What no Jihad? Well.. it IS the red headed stepchild no one wants to admit to }:)
Neko_Bijin
Alpha Strike naïf
I assume that FBI crawlerbot have sifted every byte of data on my computer for my 10 years of typing "Jihad" into message boards. I'll bet there's even a Post-it note on a manilla file somewhere admonishing new hires to ignore the BattleTech crowd while dowsing for home-grown threats.
"Lord Kurita is merciful. You will be spared the humiliation of a trial. Instead, you are invited to dine with your sainted ancestors. You don't follow? Let me rephrase. I am about to run you through with my sword. Now you get the picture? Good."
nckestrel
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Quote from: pheonixstorm on 12 February 2015, 03:44:37
His goal was to expand from the Intro Box Set, set in the Succession Wars. The Jihad does not come directly from the Succession Wars.
Not only do I admit to the Jihad, I also like redheaded children and stepchildren. I am one and wouldn't mind being the other.
Nevermind . After Sartis's post I see what was meant.
« Last Edit: 12 February 2015, 12:10:53 by nckestrel »
Master Unit List - List of all canon units, faction availabilities, Alpha Strike unit cards, Battle Values
Combat Manual Lite series - Steiner, Liao, Marik, Calderon, Invading Clans, Comstar. Also Record Sheets for the CM: Kurita and CM: Mercs unique pilots.
Quote from: nckestrel on 12 February 2015, 10:40:29
Indeed so. I mostly stopped at 3052-53 because of the large-scale influx of units in TRO 3055/58/60. I'm a big fan of the Jihad era, especially the later publications like Jihad Secrets, Final Reckoning, and The Wars of Reaving
Edit: Ha. I see what phoenixstorm was getting at. I had inadvertently left the Jihad out of the eras list at the beginning of the document. Whoops!
« Last Edit: 12 February 2015, 11:53:05 by Sartris »
jackpot4
Quote from: Neko_Bijin on 12 February 2015, 09:56:21
LOL I had never thought about that.
Truth is treason in an empire of lies.
Be the Light in the darkness.
elf25s
Quote from: jackpot4 on 12 February 2015, 14:43:31
i really needed that chuckle....
you sure cannot out run death...but sure as hell you can make that bastard work for it!
added product series descriptions.
Archer_Wirth
Master Sergeant
Col. Archer Wirth
25th Whiskey Rangers
Mercenary Wizards
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TurquoiseKitFox!
I admit, working for a federal agency a few years ago and accidentally leaving "Dawn of the Jihad" on my desk one day resulted in a very pointed look from my boss.
"There's a difference between the soldier and his fight,
But the warrior knows the true meaning of his life."
+Larry and his Flask, 'Blood Drunk'+
"You know, basically war is just, like, a bunch of people playing pranks on each other, but at the end they all die."
+Crow T. Robot+
Nerroth
Victoria pro Res publica!
If it's not too late to offer suggestions for the opening post, I might add that it may be worth adding in more data on the Star League-era Historical volumes than is currently listed.
Historical Reunification War and the two Historical: Liberation of Terra books are key to exploring the rise and fall of the Star League respectively, and I'd personally sooner recommend those three ahead of, say, Era Report: 2750.
Also, I was under the impression that FM:SLDF was set in 2765 (to match the various PDF-only Field Reports), rather than 2750.
On a side note, I wonder if it might also be worth mentioning the upcoming First Succession War book, or even the Empires Aflame PDF. The former will hopefully pick up where Historical: Liberation of Terra II left off, and show what the Exiles in Historical: Operation KLONDIKE were leaving behind. While the latter opens a window on an alternate timeline in which the course of events following the collapse of the Star League flowed in a very different direction...
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Quote from: Nerroth on 05 April 2016, 16:26:33
it's not too late, no. i had originally thought about including LoT I & II but decided against it because i was trying to give new player a basic intro to the Star League era, which ER 2750 provides. Also, truth be told, I hadn't read either of the Liberation of Terra volumes when I originally made this post
Still part of the star league era, and an overview of Man's greatest assembled army.
I'll let people find their way down their own counter-factual rabbit holes.
i've done a total teardown of the original post and restructured it to account for the forthcoming Game of Armored Combat Box and the new BMM/TRO: Succession Wars paradigm. Any suggestions or fixes are welcome.
Empyrus
Nice introduction to BT overall.
Do check for "GAoC" though, you put that instead of "GoAC" at some points, like the Turning Points section. Confused me greatly
While you've shied away from from post-Clan Invasion content, i'd make notes of the eras in general sense at least (eg Jihad: you get to fight with or against cybernetic pseudo-super villains), as they do offer different things from pre-Clan Invasion eras, and also note that they work fine with just BMM ruleset for most part.
Also i'd make note of the Dark Age specifically, highlighting its nature as the era were the story is on-going, and how it is adaptation of MWDA, should there be fans of that who'd like to relieve the time in different way.
For Europeans, i'd add note of that fantasywelt.de sells IWM minis here (lower shipping costs), and Ral Partha Europe is another option.
IS standard and pulse lasers: red; IS ER and X-pulses: blue; Re-engineered lasers: orange; Clan ER, pulse, and ER pulse lasers: green; Clan heavy lasers: yellow; PPCs: skyblue; PPCs w/capacitor: purplish-blue.
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I am wondering where the link to your youtube instructional video is . . . did I miss it?
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must be someone else. i've never made anything for youtube.
Sorry, sort of joking . . . you have done a wonderful job, I just wonder about getting someone to do your write up as a promo video.
the very last thing BattleTech's brand image needs is my ugly mushmouth pushing their product on youtube
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I just checked eBay, and all the Alpha Strike Lance Packs are still available, most for as little as $8. A couple are at retail+shipping. They may be OOP, but there are plenty for sale.
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That's why I kept them on the list, yeah
99% of BattleTech products get one "print". Ie. everything is "out of print" as soon as it's printed. The core rule books are the major exception (and intro box set).
That's far different from "out of stock", which varies depends on who's stocking and what they've ordered.
For the core rule books, discussions of when/how to reprint start when their main warehouse for their primary distributor runs out. That's the more "colloquial" definition of "out of print". A game store asks for a book, the distributor doesn't have any to send them. Has nothing to do with when it was actually printed.
At least, that's my limited understanding of BattleTecj printings.
TROs apparently also get multiple printings, or used to, anyway.
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This is awesome. Now, if only anyone I knew was at all interested in playing tabletop Battletech over just playing video games. I got one of the out of print boxed sets and I've only really used it once.
Well, you can always practice by MegaMek and play people all over the world- lol if they tell you where they are from! It also exposes you to a lot of play styles and ideas.
Nice work, compiling all this info, inc the pics for the books/boxed sets! Cudos!
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To kick off, Part 1 covers some key vocabulary on this subject. We've selected three Chinese words that translate to "negotiate" / "negotiations", each with slightly different usages: 商讨, 谈判 and 交涉.
商讨 describes the process of discussions and negotiations. It refers to amicable, cooperative dealings, rather than anything too adversarial. You might also use it to describe opening discussions, which may lead to formal/final negotiations later.
Zánmen yǒuxiē shì děi shāngtǎo yīxià.
We have a few matters to discuss.
Zhège wèntí shì méiyǒu shāngtǎo yúdì de.
This is a question with no leeway for negotiation.
Note: 协商 is similar to 商讨, and used in the same way.
Tāmen yíngdé le zhè cháng tánpàn.
Zhànzhōng tánpàn yǒuwàng xiàzhōu qǐdòng.
The Occupy Central negotiations should hopefully start next week.
交涉 is used when there is a problem. For example, if ordered goods are lost, who should pay for it, the buyer or the seller? They have to 交涉 to find a solution. In addition, 交涉 is a formal word used in the political context for disputes/negotiations with foreign countries..
Wǒmen zhèng jiāoshè jiābān fèi wèntí.
We're in dispute about overtime rates.
Wǒmen zhèngzài jiāoshè, hái měiyǒu zhǎodào jǐejué fānàn.
We are negotiating right now, still haven't found a solution.
Negotiations were finally concluded satisfactorily.
Zhè shì yī gè yánzhòng de wèntí. Wǒmen jīntiān bìxū hé Wáng xiānsheng jiāoshè zhàodào jiějué fāngàn.
This is a serious problem. We must meet with Mr. Wang today to discuss and find a solution.
Look out for Part 2 of this mini series, in which we interview Paul Ark to bring you insights and advice from an experienced professional in the field.
Paul is based in Shanghai and Bangkok. He earned his MBA at Kellogg (Northwestern University), and then gained 8 years' experience as an investment banker, negotiating deals at Deutsche Bank and Citibank in Asia. Paul subsequently moved into retail, bringing upscale Thai department stores to China and then opening Apple's retail flagship stores in China and across Asia. Most recently Paul has been working in a consulting role, bringing Microsoft retail locations to the PRC.


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A Gulfport teen was found shot dead in a car Wednesday afternoon.
By Jennifer Lott and WLOX Staff
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A Gulfport teen was found shot dead in a car Wednesday afternoon.
Harrison County Deputy Coroner Ben Bentz confirms the victim is 19-year-old Ozell Addison, Jr. Bentz says Addison was found with a gunshot wound in a vehicle in the 2000 block of 31st Street, near the intersection of 20th Avenue.
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"Two kids walking down the alley there, the neighbor said somebody is in that car," mechanic, David Bielefeldt said. "I went back and looked again in the very back of it and there was a body back there so I looked to see if I could get any response and I could see there was no movement, no breathing or nothing."
A day later, a memorial now sits in his honor.
His family left behind, a broken shell of what it used to be, remembering him after he never returned home from seeing a friend on Saturday.
"As a kid, he was very fun, always kept a smile on everybody's face," his mother, Patricia May. "He was going to make jokes. He was a drummer, he would bang on my lamps to learn how to play."
"I'm his big sister," Chyna Crowther said. "So I watched him from a toddler to a grown man. I just wanna say that I'm a grieving sister and you took a big part of my heart out."
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His family believes he was targeted.
"It's more like I'm jealous of you," his father, King May, Jr. said. "I don't like what you're doing. You think you're better than me so I'm going to take you out. That's the way it seems to me. Nevermind what you may do to a whole family by destroying one."
Now the family is pleading for answers, closure, and an end to the violence.
"You wouldn't want this feeling that I'm feeling, you wouldn't want to be in my shoes," Crowther said.
"Let's drop the guns and pick up the Bible," his father said. "We don't need the gun violence. Don't grab a gun and be a coward. There's no bigger coward than one that grabs a gun and doesn't come foward."
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JMB, Americorps, Peace Corp, Teach for American, First author publication in either Nature or New England Journal of Medicine, 4 months of research in Antarctica, just to name a few.
JMB-professional ice hockey player, National Champion football player, editor of campus newspapers, peace corp., teach for America, opening free clinic in Baghdad, former lawyer, Ph.D's, etc.
Also biking across America to raise money for charity. Donating a kidney to a relative also comes to mind.
Actors, professional (touring) musicians…oh, and I loved the guy who did origami in his interview–made a cool T-Rex.
Note the diversity of impressive experience. I will make a bet that these people were not trying to impress someone; they were pursuing their passions and interests.
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Steve, Deanna, and Zita: What are Johns Hopkins strengths, and what needs to be improved?
Linda: strengths: Great faculty, flexible curriculum, top-notch education in both basics and clinical training. For improvement: I think the facilities leave something to be desired, but they're working on that with new computers in the labs, and of course the new med school building soon.
Linda, I think the strengths of Hopkins are its commitment to its students. The faculty really value students, and it shows in our classes. They also provide us with many resources – mentoring opportunities, advisors, etc.
I think as far as academics and the learning environment, one of Hopkins biggest strengths is that they really listen to the students. After each block they have us evaluate and after talking to second years, they really do make many improvements year to year.
I agree with Steven on the flexible curriculum. You are able to take the board examinations in a flexible manner and they are not required to start your clinical rotations.
Linda, weaknesses – in the first year, there is a lot of basic sciences right at the beginning of the year so sometimes it's frustrating because it doesn't always "feel" like medical school. However, they are revamping the entire curriculum next year, and I know this is one of the areas they wanted to change.
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Inforum index: Women's leadership roles are still lacking
For women, a decade deferred
Sherri Welch
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Deb Thorpe is a senior vice president at Troy-based Kelly Services, where women have moved into senior leadership jobs held by men just a few years ago.
Number of years it would take at the current pace to achieve gender balance in the boardrooms of Michigan's top 100 public companies.
Number of Michigan's 100 largest public companies that have no women in the ranks of their top compensated officers
About four years ago, while looking at Kelly Services Inc.'s management structure, Deb Thorpe and another female colleague working at the staffing company noticed the lack of women among Kelly's top management.
That sparked conversation about how they could achieve the same success as the male leaders at Troy-based Kelly (Nasdaq: KELY A,B) and subsequent meetings with the company's diversity inclusion team.
A year later, they launched "Leadership in Action, Powered by the Women of Kelly," a business resource forum for management-level or higher women — and men, as it turned out, since many men had the same questions about how to develop their careers and get access to senior leaders.
Where to hear findings of leadership
The Inforum Center for Leadership plans to share the findings of the 2013 Michigan Women's Leadership Index this week at three lunch events:
• Tuesday, University Club of Michigan State University, Lansing. Speaker: Gov. Rick Snyder
• Wednesday, Cobo Center. Speakers: Dan Akerson, chairman and CEO, General Motors Co.; Mark Weinberger, global chairman and CEO, Ernst & Young LLP.
• Oct. 9: JW Marriott, Grand Rapids. Speaker: Amway Corp. President Doug DeVos
Ticket information is available at inforummichigan.org.
Those resources and career mentoring efforts are some reasons women now account for a third of the company's senior executives and 36.4 percent of Kelly's board, up from 17 percent board representation a decade ago.
That puts Kelly ahead of many other public companies in Michigan in terms of women holding key roles on boards and among their senior leadership teams, according to the newly released 2013 Michigan Women's Leadership Index, researched by the Wayne State University School of Business Administration for the Detroit-based Inforum Center for Leadership.
The index is posted at inforummichigan.org.
Including Kelly, women hold three or four board seats at just nine of Michigan's top 100 public companies, according to the index.
DTE Energy Co., Perrigo Co., Kellogg Co. and Herman Miller Inc. each have three female directors. General Motors Co., Steelcase Inc., Spartan Stores and Eastern Michigan Financial Corp. all have four women on their boards.
"What that means is they are starting to achieve a critical mass of women," said Inforum President and CEO Terry Barclay.
As a group, however, the 100 top public companies in Michigan have made only slight inroads in bringing women onto their boards and into their top management ranks over the past decade, she said.
"When you look at the percentage of women in the companies. ... We're at roughly the same percentages over the last 10 years," she said.
Stalled in the halls of power
Percentages of women in companies in Michigan.
Directors on boards of top 100 public companies
Boards of Fortune 500 companies
Share of executive office positions in top 100 largest public companies
Women among top five compensated officers at 100 largest public companies
2003 9.60% 12% na 7.10%
2005 9.9 14.1 na 5.7
2007 9.8 14.3 11.6 7.1
2011 10.5 18.4 13.3 7.2
Source: 2013 Michigan Women's Leadership Index, a study by Inforum Center for Leadership
At Kelly, Thorpe said the women's leadership group — 245 members strong, two-thirds of them women — exposes Kelly's C-suite and top management to its members, networks with other local and national women's business resource groups, and shares best practices.
Thorpe, who has been promoted several times over the past half-dozen years and now serves as senior vice president of Kelly's Outsourcing and Consulting Group, chairs the leadership group. "When you get to certain levels of leadership, your ability to execute ... and deliver becomes the minimum expectation of a leader," she said.
At that point, it becomes about how you can influence others, collaborate and motivate, and inspire people to want to follow and execute to the strategic plan, Thorpe said.
Today, female leaders at Kelly have moved into senior leadership jobs held by men just a few years ago, including CIO and several senior vice president positions.
In the last three years, five senior leadership positions that were vacated by men have been filled by women, said George Corona, executive vice president and COO of Kelly, in an emailed statement.
"Gender wasn't a deciding factor in any of those appointments," he said. "We simply determined who was the best match for those leadership positions and they happened to be women."
Not all companies are increasing the number of women in key positions.
According to the index:
• 11.6 percent of directors at the 100 largest public companies in Michigan are women now, up just two percentage points from 9.6 percent in 2003.
• Women now account for 12.6 percent of the highest officer positions, up one percentage point from 11.6 percent in 2007.
• The number of top-compensated officers at the largest public companies rose to 9.6 percent this year compared to 7.1 percent in 2003. However, because the pool is small, the numbers vacillate, as the table on Page 3 shows.
The 100 largest publicly held companies are missing opportunities to put women on boards, Barclay said.
Over the past year and a half, 46 new directors were elected to the boards of the state's top 100 public companies, according to the index. Of the new directors, 35 — or 76 percent — were men, Barclay said.
On a positive note, Michigan's 16 Fortune 500 companies are slightly outpacing their peers nationally when it comes to women holding board seats, according to the index.
Among Michigan's Fortune 500 companies, women account for 17.4 percent of board seats this year, reflecting an increase of 5.45 percentage points since 2003. This year's number is down slightly from 18.4 percent board representation by women at Michigan's Fortune 500 companies in 2011, the last time the index was released.
Inforum President and CEO Terry Barclay
But current board representation still outpaces the national Fortune 500 2012 average of 16.6 percent held by women, Barclay said.
"We're getting to balanced representation at some pretty significant companies; that's the good news," Barclay said.
"The bad news is that things aren't changing fast enough at most companies."
Board Access, a program launched in 2010 by Inforum to help women develop and market the skills they need for for-profit boards, is having some success, Barclay said, with women joining the boards of more small and midsize public and private companies.
"Probably one of the most important things women can do to be on one of the top 100 public boards is to seek profit-and-loss responsibility and budget authority," Barclay said.
Skills vs. titles
For their part, companies can appoint more women to boards as vacancies occur, she said.
"As part of that, companies need to broaden their concept of suitable board candidates," Barclay said.
Typically, the boards of top public companies look for C-suite titles for board members, she said, but there are still not as many women with "c" in their titles. For example, there are women who are vice presidents at automotive companies running divisions that are larger and more complex than some of the state's largest public companies.
"If it were a stand-alone business unit, they would be the CEO. But their title is vice president because they are working at a global giant," Barclay said.
If companies would base their board searches based on skill levels versus titles, that would be one way to increase the number of women on boards, she said.
Companies also need to broaden their minds about the qualifications needed for a board member, Barclay said.
"There are so many talented women in this town who would be perfect for board seats at smaller to midsize companies," she said.
Companies can also challenge the status quo during talent reviews to broaden the reviews as they search for talent to promote, Barclay said. They should look beyond the usual suspects and visual superstars to people who are truly capable and include them among the candidates they are considering promoting, she said.
McKinsey & Co. research shows that when companies do that, more women will be in that candidacy pool, Barclay said.
"When you broaden the pool ... the top talent can rise."
Sherri Welch: (313) 446-1694, [email protected]. Twitter: @sherriwelch
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect stock symbol for Kelly Services. This version of the story is correct.
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Bakersfield, CA – Berry Petroleum Company LLC (the "Company" or "Berry") successfully emerged from bankruptcy today following confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization by the Honorable Judge David R. Jones of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Texas in January. Financially restructured, Berry emerges as a stable, well capitalized stand-alone company. Berry was previously a wholly owned subsidiary of LINN Energy LLC.
"Berry's emergence from bankruptcy would not be possible if not for the support of our dedicated employees, whose hard work and focus contributed greatly to the successful result we have today," said Berry Chief Executive Officer Trem Smith. "I would also like to thank our customers, vendors and contractors for their continued loyalty and support, as well as our new owners whose willingness to further invest in Berry demonstrates their confidence and continued optimism in Berry's future. Berry is stronger than ever. We remain committed to our current asset base and focused on growth opportunities in surrounding areas, particularly in California."
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A Guest Post by Deidra Wilson.
Many of you may want to step up your food photography from iPhone to fabulous, but you're sure that it's quite impossible to do without a food stylist and ten grand worth of gear to help you make that dish look amazing. I am living proof that that's just not the case. If you have a team that is willing to work hard and a location that allows for great lighting, you're more than halfway there.
Since you likely don't have a food stylist, make sure you have a chef that's willing to go above and beyond when it comes to plating the dish. You want everything to be brightly colored and placed neatly. Any garnishes should be super fresh (no wilted greens, please!). Sauces, when used as decoration, should be bright and shiny. Since you don't have a stylist, you're in charge of styling the food on the plate. Look through your lens and take a few test shots. Look at the images and determine what (if anything) is detracting from the image. If there is, fix it and try again!
If you must photograph for an extended period of time, you may wish to replace parts of the dish as needed. For example – melted cheese will harden quickly and no longer appear appetizing. If you are photographing any type of meat, it will likely start to release juices that will mar the plate. Re-plate it and keep shooting! It's better to take the time to redo something, rather than try to correct it in post-production.
For example, if you have a piece of meat that is grilled, make sure those grill marks are beautifully straight and perfectly criss-crossed. If you have a sushi roll, make sure the pieces are placed in an appealing manner and that any details like sauces or garnishes aren't detracting from the image. Sometimes less is better when it comes to food photography. A plate with too much going on will easily detract from the star of the image.
Natural daylight tends to be the most flattering for any subject, food included! I love to shoot food right next to a big window. You can either backlight it by shooting into the light, or use the available light to light your image. If you must use lights, try to use daylight-balanced hot lights or strobes (around 5000K if possible). This will nearly replicate natural light and allow you to achieve beautiful results.
This creates interest and drama in the subject and allows you to make the best of the available light. When you shoot with a shallow DOF, you'll want to keep the focal point towards the front of the image. So, if you're photographing a sushi roll, don't focus on the pieces furthest from your lens – focus on the piece closest to the front and let the rest of the roll elegantly fade into a beautiful bokeh.
Overall, have fun with it! I've been photographing food as a commercial photographer for more than a decade. Every shoot is different and I've worked under nearly every condition imaginable, including completely dark rooms. Be creative, be willing to think outside the box and get ready to experiment and have fun.
very useful. simple easy to understand.
Hey, these are excellent tips for Food Photography, which I'd like to experiment with more. Natural light is my forte.
I'm wondering if a Tilt&Shift Lens wouldn't be also very useful for food photography ?
Good article, howver I disagree with your last point and the picture you have attached to the article. While most of the picture is very appealing, I find the large chuck of meat in the lower right-hand corner that is out of focus to be very distracting.
All great tips! I've tried food photography and it was a fun subject.
I only get to photograph food that I order and most of the time the restaurants have low lights. Still have to try and liked the shallow depth of field idea.
For a Canon 500D SLR, what lens would you recommend, if I'm looking mostly to take pictures of food I'm eating at restaurants? I won't have any professional equipment with me and it will literally be me sitting right in front of the food.
By the way do you like deer?


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