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[PacerGH]

In preparation for Project Phoenix dropping, and generally some of the improvements (and unimprovements, like that crappy gauss charging!), I decided to break out some old stuff.



The Sword and the Dagger, perhaps my favorite BattleTech book. A simple book, for a simpler time. And below that? Yup. That's my "MultiPlayer BattleTech 3025" MMOG card from GenCon 1999, baby!

Good times. Good times.

Re-read S&D, now on to Warrior. I need to grab the Wolf's Dragoons book, too, and all my sourcebooks. So much awesome.

[Memowolf]

Loved the novels and loved the boardgame but most of all I remember our coaxial cable network to play MechWarrior 2. It would take us about an hour to set it up and get to see the other computers to be able to play Diablo and MW2. From there it was MW3, MW4, Mercenaries and the MechCommander series.

[Lukoi Banacek]

Im reading the entire series from SD to the end of the dark ages. 90 some books. Still have a couple to find and buy but its been interesting to read them all in the proper order.

[PacerGH]

The Sourcebooks are the best. Most of the novels, meh. Wolves on the Border may be my favorite. Sword and the Dagger is close, too.

The Warrior series and the Clan invasion series, eh. I am no Stackpole fan. (I was when I was younger, but in a less fevered eye it is painful to re-read.)

The Thurston Jade Falcon series is good, but I'm not really a Clanner.

Stuff after that I don't really recall. There were some good books here and there. Some of the other Canon writers I enjoyed.

But the real magic was the open-ended nature of the Sourcebooks. I love those and devour them. I have two Star League ones lying around, even. Good, good stuff.

Those were the books that got one's imagination firing.

[St Peace]

After hearing about the Battletech books, mostly from Pacer, I have decided to start reading the series. Feel free to make a suggestion on where to start

Edited by St Peace, 30 October 2013 - 10:28 AM.

[Hillslam]

Are these available out there anywhere for digital download?

I used to have the tech manuals and boardgame but after a couple decades of moving Its surely been lost in all the packing/repacking.

Also maybe a good source (other than amazon/ebay) to find the old tech manuals and other source books.

[Lance McRaven]

Gray Death Legion Saga is where it is at. Start with "Decision at Thunder Rift", then read "Mercenary Star", then "Price of Glory", "Tactics of Duty", "Operation Excalibur" and "The Dying Time". You will feel as if you were one of the mercs, by the end. Those books got me into tabletop Battletech, and let to almost a 30 year love affair with this community.

[CyclonerM]

St Peace, on 30 October 2013 - 10:24 AM, said:

After hearing about the Battletech books, mostly from Pacer, I have decided to start reading the series. Feel free to make a suggestion on where to start

As a Clanner, i would suggest you to start with the Legend of the Jade Phoenix and Blood of Kerensky trilogies.
If you want to start with books focused on the Inner Sphere then you may start with Wolves on the Border (my first book!) or the other books set in the Succession Wars era, before the Clan invasion.

[PacerGH]

Wolves on the Border may be the best intro into 3025-era Battletech. Sword and the Dagger is good as well, but much more difficult to find.

The Grey Death Legion saga is also good. Pretty much the books which focus on individual units or characters tend to be much better than the over-arching, epic story line books. The Warrior series tells the story of the 4th Succession War, but the 4th Succession War Atlas Volumes I and II are much better at it I think.

I always felt Battletech should have done a series of books like Star Wars did: Mos Eisley Cantina, and its ilk. Some short story works collected together with a general theme.

BTW, Peace, you and I should coordinate some drops some time. I am going to hit you up here with my contact info in a private message, so give it a look.

[Lori Kalmar]

I holeheartedly approve of reading:

"Decision at Thunder Rift"

[Dawnstealer]

Rolling Thunder had a good Battlemaster shot. Searching the interwebs...



This is what it used to be like, kids.

[PacerGH]

I think I have Rolling Thunder. Sword and the Dagger also has a BattleMaster shot.

Good times.

[St Peace]

Fellow MechWarriors and reading fans thank you for the BT reading list! I believe you have given me a few good options to get me started. Pacer I'll shot you a msg of when I am online playing. I can be typically found dropping with the SJ1 over at the skye-rangers.net TS. Maybe you can join me there ? I try to play most nights and on weekends.

[Colonel Fubar]

PacerGH, on 28 October 2013 - 06:54 PM, said:

In preparation for Project Phoenix dropping, and generally some of the improvements (and unimprovements, like that crappy gauss charging!), I decided to break out some old stuff.



The Sword and the Dagger, perhaps my favorite BattleTech book. A simple book, for a simpler time. And below that? Yup. That's my "MultiPlayer BattleTech 3025" MMOG card from GenCon 1999, baby!

Good times. Good times.

Re-read S&D, now on to Warrior. I need to grab the Wolf's Dragoons book, too, and all my sourcebooks. So much awesome.

It's the little things that separate the Mechwarriors from the Tourists Pacer, and that GenCon card is very Riki Tik! I wanted to make the 1999 event but missed out. If ya get a chance stop into my profile and take a peek at my complete Battletech Novel Collection and Mechwarrior Unit Patch Collection. Currently rereading again and it never gets old.
Good Luck Mechwarrior!