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[Cataphractos]

The Frog: Each of the Inner Sphere houses has both a Handbook (which is a broad view of the given society) and a Field Manual (which focuses on the society's military aspects). I don't know enough about Clan and Periphery sourcebooks to say anything about them. There are plenty of other sourcebooks, but given that "MWO" is set firmly in the 3050s (and 3060s if we're lucky), you won't want to bother with most of the new, Jihad-era stuff. If you don't have a clue as to your House/Clan preference, check out Classic BattleTech Universe.

As you've seen from the previous posts, every House has found a way -- by hook or by crook -- to field almost every type of BattleMech. In principle, some models should be more common in certain Houses -- Ravens, for instance, are signature House Liao 'Mechs -- but nobody's stopping you from being the "black sheep" of your House. Now, if you're going for a fancy Clan "OmniMech"...that might be another story.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Cataphractos, on 25 March 2014 - 09:45 PM, said:

Now, if you're going for a fancy Clan "OmniMech"...that might be another story.

Even those got fielded quite a bit - even a relatively small and unimportant merc company such as the Caballeros managed to field a few

Edit: by few - I mean that they have a Timberwolf in the one book I have with them in it

Edited by Shar Wolf, 25 March 2014 - 09:54 PM.

[SnagaDance]

Caballeros in the novels mostly had old tech, 3025 level most of it. That Timberwolf is the only Clan mech they have (and their only omni). The only other thing that could be called impressive in terms of tech is that they had 2 ArrowIV Catapults, and later on through the benevolent meddling of Uncle Chandy they got themselves 2 (or was it only 1?) O-Bakemono (Combine Naga rip-offs) on loan for evaluation.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Point still stands that they had the tech though.
Anyone who wanted to recreate them (as people have the Dragoons - who had a lot of mixed-tech, or the other big name Merc companies) would have at least some reason to be upset
(and all the more-so for factions like the Dragoons, or Kurita who had a fairly large amount of mixed-tech)

[kosmos1214]

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