"YOUR AVATAR AWAITS!
• Standing from seven to sixteen meters tall, and weighing from twenty to one hundred tons
• Powered by an armored and shielded fusion reactor
• Skeleton of honeycombed, foamed aluminum core wrapped with stressed silicon carbide monofilament and sheathed by a rigid, titanium-steel shell
• Locomotion generated via bundles of polyacetylene-fiber myomer muscles
• Protected by aligned-crystal steel over a layer of boron nitride impregnated with diamond monofilaments Mounting a swath of powerful weapons from charged particle beams to lasers, missiles to rapid-fire autocannons
• All at the command of the noble elite, the MechWarriors

The modern BattleMech is the end result of more than three thousand years of battlefield technology development. Combining awesome destructive power and unparalleled maneuverability, the BattleMech is perhaps the most complex machine ever produced. The undisputed master of thirty-first century warfare, the BattleMech seems destined to reign supreme for centuries to come."

—Excerpts from a promotional pamphlet originally distributed by Defiance Industries of Hesperus, Lyran Commonwealth, 3007

Using the most up-to-date rules text, the BattleMech Manual has been designed from the ground up to cater to the BattleTech player wanting to engage in an all-’Mech battle.

Includes a variety of optional rules, terrain and more.

Welcome to the most table-usage-friendly BattleTech rulebook ever published!

Forge your forces and prepare to fight any battle across the Inner Sphere!

Campaign Operations completes the core rulebook series begun in Total Warfare. While previous rulebooks detailed game play at various levels—from a single MechWarrior, to a BattleMech company, to entire armies—this final volume focuses on the forces a player will build and run through any level of play.

Campaign Operations contains rules for creating and running forces, whether a down-on-their-luck mercenary battalion, or a fully-supplied House regiment. The volume also contains complete rules for devising solar systems, allowing players to recreate existing star systems or craft all-new worlds to challenge each other. The final sections of the book bring several options to the table for campaign play. Building off of previous sections in Total Warfare and Strategic Operations, the Narrative Campaign, Map-Based Campaign and Chaos Campaign rules allow players to build exciting, fun campaigns of almost any stripe for their newly-minted forces!

In 3132, eighty percent of the hyperpulse generators in the Inner Sphere shut down, silencing virtually all interstellar communications between the thousands of worlds humankind called home. Remembering the horrors of the Jihad that ended just half a century before, paranoid citizens and opportunistic leaders across the Sphere instinctively girded for the invasions that were sure to come. As ancient rivals once again turned against each other, the Republic of the Sphere—once a beacon of hope for billions—found itself nearly torn asunder by hostile neighbors on every side.

A new Dark Age had begun.
Era Report: 3145 describes the state of the Inner Sphere at critical age in BattleTech history: the years of the Dark Age era. Presented as a general overview of the period, rather than a focused report on a single conflict, this book includes descriptions of every major Inner Sphere faction active in the wake of the catastrophic failure of the interstellar HPG grid. Notable personalities, military forces, and an overview of the technological capabilities of the Dark Age era are also provided, along with special advanced-level rules for campaigns set during this time, whether played using the Total Warfare core rules or those found in A Time of War: The BattleTech RPG.

The year is 3085. In the wake of the Jihad, a new realm—the Republic of the Sphere—has been born. Drawing war-weary masses from all over the Inner Sphere, the Republic stands for unity and security, in the hopes that never again will its worlds suffer from centuries of relentless war. But even though the common threat has finally passed, few believe they have seen the last of war. As the combined realms and Clans of the Inner Sphere struggle to rebuild, a new balance of power has begun to emerge.

Field Manual: 3085 updates the military and political state of the Inner Sphere in the years following the end of the Jihad and the formation of the Republic of the Sphere. This report includes a brief history and overview of recent developments in the BattleTech universe (including the formation and organization of the Republic of the Sphere), as well as current TO&Es for all of the major ’Mech and mercenary commands employed by the realms and Clans of the post-Jihad Inner Sphere. Special rules are also included, enabling players to create characters and forces for use in campaigns set in and after this critical point in BattleTech history.

• Provides an “end cap” summary of one of the most epic periods in the history of BattleTech: the Jihad.
• Meshes with the recently published Jihad: The Final Reckoning, which describes the final actions of the war and the birth of The Republic that will influence so many future events.
• Updates and combines the data first presented in the PDF-exclusive Field Report, series, which described individual factions in the aftermath of the events described in Jihad Hot Spots: Terra.
• Meshes with the upcoming Field Manual: 3150 sourcebook, planned to fleshout the Dark Age Era.
• Establishes the post-Jihad setting as a period where role-players and war game campaigns may be set, by providing additional rules and tables for the setting.

ENEMIES AT THE GATES

It is the year 3145. Only thirteen years have passed since Gray Monday -the day that most of humanity's interstellar communications grid suddenly and mysteriously collapsed. Plunged into darkness and fearing the worst, the leaders and armies of the Inner Sphere scrambled to act, some fearing the approach of invaders, others seeking to exploit the chaos. Now, armies are on the march, war has erupted on every front, and the Republic of the Sphere, once a sign of mankind's hope for a brighter future -has retreated behind its fortress walls to prepare for the inevitable.

Field Manual: 3145 updates the military and political state of the Inner Sphere as it stands in the year 3145. This report includes a brief history and overview of recent developments in the BattleTech universe, as well as current TO&Es for the major 'Mech forces and mercenary commands employed by the realms and Clans of the Dark Age Inner Sphere. Special era-specific rules are also included, enabling players to create characters and forces for use in campaigns set in and after this critical point in BattleTech history.

Field Manual: 3145 is the next installment of the Field Manual series set in the latter years of the Dark Age Era first described by WizKids’ MechWarrior collectible miniatures game.

This sourcebook provides a complete summary of the military readiness of the various factions in the BattleTech universe in the year 3145, shortly after the events described in Steven Mohan’s Bonfire of Worlds epub novel, when the various factions of the Inner Sphere battle one another around the crumbling remains of the Republic of the Sphere.

• Provides a comprehensive summary of the military forces of the various Houses and Clans of the BattleTech setting in 3145.
• Meshes with the recently published Era Report: 3145 , which describes the history and general state of the Inner Sphere since the end of the Jihad.
• Focuses more on setting than a single conflict, providing additional role-playing and campaign hooks for games set in the long-awaited Dark Age period.
• Meshes with Field Manual: 3085, which introduced the newborn Republic of the Sphere faction, and details its evolution from a hopeful post-Jihad state to a realm besieged by enemies on all sides.
• Demonstrates the evolution of the various armies of the Inner Sphere and Clan powers in the decades following the Word of Blake Jihad, and their ability to wage war even after an age of extended, relative peace.

In 3081, the Republic of the Sphere was born from the ruins of the Word of Blake Protectorate. For an Inner Sphere devastated by the horrors of escalating war, the Republic was a beacon of hope for a brighter, more peaceful future…

For a time, it almost was.

Historical: Wars of the Republic Era describes the border conflicts that inevitably erupted in the decades after the Word of Blake Jihad. Covering the largest of these conflicts in particular—including the Second Combine-Dominion War, the Victoria War, and the Republic of the Sphere’s own war against the Capellan Confederation—this book provides a hard look at the early years of what would come to be known as the Dark Age Era.

Enhance your battlefield tactics by substituting the Initiative Deck for the standard Initiative roll. Poor initiative position awards stronger strategic and tactical opportunities which can make up for "bad luck."

The Initiative Deck is 24 cards in a single tuck box.

Marshal your forces and prepare to conquer the Inner Sphere! Interstellar Operations: BattleForce provides a sliding zoom that can scale from a quick game on your table up to the macro level, allowing players to assume the roles of House Lords and dominate the galaxy!

BattleForce is a complete, all-in-one-book game system of combat on a grand scale, but tailored to your interest at the gaming table.

* Play lightning-fast, large-scale games like battalion vs battalion or conquer a planet with multiple regiments.
* Not large enough? Invade an entire sector of a House as armies clash across a dozen systems.
* Still not large enough? Become a Clan Khan or House Leader and amass all the industrial might of your empire to protect your worlds and defeat your enemies!

Note: The original publication of Interstellar Operations had rules for playing in alternate eras which can now be found in the Interstellar Operations -Alternate Eras.

Jihad Conspiracies: Interstellar Players 2 describes several of the most powerful and influential people, organizations, and entities at work behind the scenes of the Word of Blake Jihad. Some of these conspiracies are firmly grounded in Classic BattleTech lore, but shown here in ways never before seen; others have only recently emerged from their own shadows. Gamemasters and players can decide which of these power brokers are real and which are paranoid fantasies spawned by the chaos and fear of the Blakist Holy War!

• A variety of plot concepts and threads allows players a host of options for almost any type of campaign, from the board game to roleplaying game.
• Includes illustrations, game stats and record sheets for a new BattleMech and aerospace fighter

Pages: 136

Centuries-old Secrets Revealed!
Chandrasekhar Kurita has spent his life hunting for ancient secrets. Almost as soon as the Word of Blake formed in 3052, “Uncle Chandy” put his vast network of spies and his massive wealth toward digging behind their façade and now, two decades later, Uncle Chandy has discovered more than he ever thought possible. Now he’s using that knowledge to send a coalition of forces against one of the Blakists’ hidden five worlds: the Ruins of Gabriel. More importantly, he’s found a connection to the single greatest mystery in the last half-millennia. Aware he’s almost guaranteed his death at the hands of a Blakist fanatic, Uncle Chandy knows the time has come to stand in the light and reveal the secrets that will change the tide of the Jihad!

Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents contains a wealth of information on the current universe-shaking Jihad storyline, providing more "hard facts" than any book to date. Detailed information on the opening years of the Jihad, including maps of the most significant conflicts; a current 3075 “Around the Sphere” in the same vein as the Jihad Hot Spots series provides up-to-date information on the latest happenings; biographies of more than twenty individuals important to the Jihad; a complete description of all Word of Blake forces, including unit logos; and the hidden history of Clan Wolverine and the Minnesota Tribe revealed! A complete rules section rounds the book out, with game play rules for taking any Word of Blake division into the field, construction rules for “primitive units,” and new ’Mechs, including Clan Wolverine’s Mercury II, Pulverizer, and Stag, the “primitive” Dervish and the mysterious Raptor II.

• Concrete information on the unfolding Jihad plotline, including important personalities and hard military data and maps
• Reveals secrets more than 20 years in the making
• Illustrations, game stats and layable record sheets for five new BattleMechs

Pages: 168

Map Pack: Alien Worlds contains 4 two-sided paper map sheets:

* Caustic Valley #1
* Caustic Valley #2
* Crystalline Canyon #1
* Crystalline Canyon #2
* Fungal Forest #1
* Fungal Forest #2
* Lunar Station #1
* Lunar Station #2
* Fractured Glaciers #1
* Fractured Glaciers #2
* Volcanic Plateau #1
* Volcanic Plateau #2

Created using art in the brillant aesthetics of the new box sets and MapPack: Grasslands, these eight paired maps detail the seven battlefields on which the entire Clan Ionvasion was brought to a halt, including a bonus map, the Deployment Zone.

Each map is 17 x 22 inches, paper, and double-sided.

Created using the same brilliant aesthetics of the new box sets and Grasslands and Battle of Tukayyid mapsets, these maps include a variety of terrain elements that deliver interesting battlefields for players of every skill level.

6 two sided paper map sheets:
-Desert Runway
-Oasis
-AeroBase #1
-AeroBase #2
-Mines #1
-Mines #2
-Sand Drift #1
-Sand Drift #2
-Badlands #1
-Badlands #2
-Washout #1
-Washout #2

Each map is 17” x 22”, paper, and may be placed side-on or edge-on with other maps for expanded battlefields.