Infantry Operations 2.0

Infantry Operations is a set of house rules designed to replace the rules in Total Warfare for Conventional Infantry. The goal of the fan-based project is to streamline the existing rules and create a simpler, more usable basic infantry system, but then to add additional rules options enabling more depth and scope for infantry-based tactics. […]

Betelgeuse Campaign (3031-3032)

INCOMING MESSAGE –DECRYPTING — –COMPLETE: 100%– TO: MAJOR HOANG DUAN [CO: MORNING STAR ASSAULT GROUP] FROM: COLONEL DAVIS HELLER [CO: TOOTH OF YMIR 08-02-3031 14:33:18] Good morning, Major. My intelligence team has just completed a tactical review of the current situation on Betelgeuse. After the initial combat drop of Warrior House Hiritsu, on 9 July, […]

Mercenary Force Generator

This article covers a method to generate a company-scale Mercenary Force in different eras for campaign games using either Chaos Campaign/BattleTech: Mercenaries or Campaign Operations. Era and Funding Step 1 is to select an era for play, this determines the starting funds for the company. Era Starting Funds (C-Bills) [OPTIONAL – BV] Succession Wars 60,000,000 […]

Strategic Movement System

[This system is under development and may be changed or added to] The Strategic Movement System allows players to simulate large-scale strategic movement of forces on a Strategic Map. Although based on some elements of Strategic Battle Force (From Interstellar Operations: BattleForce) the SMS is designed to work with BattleTech or Total Warfare to resolve […]

Operation PERSUASION – New Earth (Multiplayer)

On 5 December 3151, a fleet of Clan Wolf WarShips jumped to a pirate point in the New Earth system. The Capellan First Victorian Commonality Fleet broke orbit and moved to intercept, but just as the engagement began, the Wolf fleet jumped away, but did lose the CWS Pterolycos to three Killer Whale anti-ship missiles, […]

Operation PERSUASION – New Earth

Combat Math: The Cluster Table

Catalyst Games Labs recently commented that the 12th printing of the standard core BattleTech rulebook, Total Warfare, would be the last. Looking ahead, CGL are planning to reformat the rules, potentially making some optional rules part of the core mechanics and even… changing the cluster hit mechanic…. Since the earliest printing of the BattleTech core […]

Zuhai Showdown

[After several weeks of gaming sessions and 3 separate MegaMek sessions, our A Time of War Hinterlands campaign has reached the end of its first 3-month contract on Zhangshon, January -March 3151. The last mission – the Zuhai Showdown – was a fittingly epic finale, so I decided to write a short piece from the […]

Clan Sea Fox Spring 3151 Catalogue

Welcome Trothkin to our new Spring 3151 collection! Our products are designed to protect the freedoms of the people of the InnerSphere from threats and violence, oppression, piracy and hostile anti-competitive corporate conduct. Clan Sea Fox is the premier manufacturer of BattleMechs and other self-protection apparatus across the Inner Sphere. Seyla! We are also proud […]

BattleTech Mercenaries Contract 1

BattleTech Mercenaries Contract 1 introduces players to a series of gaming events using the Mercenaries Chaos Campaign rules. Players create a Scale 1 Mercenary Force and engage in three scenarios while managing Support Points for repairs and upgrades. Specific guidelines for force construction, battlefield support, and MechWarrior training are outlined, ensuring an engaging competition.