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I had a hard time locating it, can't believe I missed it. Thanks for the reminder about the rudimentary 'XP' system included. Great responses! I do intend this as a board game event, Merric. In the last 25 years of BT fandom rules/books have started to flow together (or just early senility at 35 -), so I'll have to check. There have been multiple sets of rules for creating, expanding, developing (mercenary) units, some more detailed then others. Also makes things easier if you want to do a side track in man vs man instead of Mech vs. Using the RPG rules for making the characters has the benefit of giving them more depth and getting your players to invest more of themselves into the characters. I've played quite a bit with it, and it holds up well - allowing you to advance the company and take them through a structured campaign.ģ025 (or a little earlier) is perfect and keeps things relatively simple.ġ.) Are you OK with pdfs or are physical books necessary? Is the second hand market an option or do all books need to be physically available now?Ģ.) How long do you expect the campaign to take, is it fixed length or indeterminate and we'll see were we end up?ģ.) Do you prefer detailed or simple rules sets for your unit?Ĥ.) Do you want to use the most recent rules set for your Battlemech fights, or would older ones do as well?ĥ.) How far do you want to advance your time line in game, you want to go from 3025 to the clan invasion, or just much around in 3025-3030? The Starterbook: Wolf and Blake also gives a self-contained campaign.įor the Succession Wars era, there are some Historical Turning Point PDF-only products (Misery, Galtor, etc.) which use the Chaos Campaign rules and give a selection of specific missions (Galtor has 6).Īgain, I strongly recommend you look at Sword and Dragon.

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It and the Introductory Box Set contain everything you need to play.Įra Report 3052 gives details of the Clan Invasion of 3050 and the early battles - plus the mission tracks needed to create a campaign in that era.Įra Report 3062 covers the late Clan Invasion era, as well as the mission tracks.Ī bunch of the Jihad books contain more missions for the Word of Blake's Jihad (3067-81). I think it would suit your purposes admirably. Sword and Dragon is set just before the Clan Invasion in 3048-9, and contains a simplified version of the Chaos Campaign rules, plus many generic missions plus set 'touchpoints' for important events in the campaign. The Chaos Campaign does not give actual missions, though.

4 XP improves piloting by one, 8 XP improves gunnery by one. (Per the standard BattleTech boardgame rules, pilots gain 1 XP per mission they're in, plus 1 extra XP for MVP. It also scales depending on the size of the force you have. It gives you guidelines for buying & selling mechs, gaining new pilots, improving them, and suchlike. You could have pilot availability be a random thing, or perhaps some kind of draft.ĭo I take it that you're running this as a boardgame and not as a RPG?īecause that's exactly what the Chaos Campaign is for. Perhaps they 'take leave' or 'get demoted/promoted' or get 'special duties/training'.

However, once you do something like this, you'll have to ensure that your players don't pick the same pilots over and over again. It will be like how a Squad Commander knows who his best sniper is, who his best scout is, and so forth. You will have to do some bookkeeping to keep track of the pilots- and their preferred mecha- but that's cool, and will add a bit of verisimilitude.

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(You might even make it a bonus to a particular weapon type.) Survive a piloting check with ridiculous negative mods and that pilot gets a permanent bonus to piloting checks. If you're not in a position to do so, try this: You roll a particularly good roll with a weapon- a head shot, or perhaps your missile hits are so tightly grouped you just peel the armor off of another mech's torso in one round of combat- you get a bonus to your weapon rolls. That may be exactly what you're looking for. Yep, look at those games for how pilots/drivers improve their skills.

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OK.you're not running them through a full RPG type thing, you just want pilots to improve as they survive battles.

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