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[Koniving]

Looking for a new book to peer at.

Specifically, I'd like a Battletech book that has as much focus as possible on industrial mechs and/or periphery life. After seeing many of the industrial mechs from Copper to Jaberwocky to the LRM-20-modified Cattlemaster agricultural mech, I'm very interested in seeing how they function and anything about them.

Anything you can throw my way?

[Skylarr]

The Grey Death Legion book, Decision at Thunder Rift by William H. Keith, Jr. (June 1986), does mention modified Mining mech if I remember correctly.

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Callie's Call is a story by Victor Milán that was published online on BattleCorps on 22 October 2005. It was also published in print in the second BattleCorps print anthology, First Strike, in 2010.

"Having lost her father to cancer two years ago, young Callista "Callie" MacDougall returns to her family's farm in a Ranchhand AgroMech to learn that her mother has married again. Callie's stepfather, Rance Mason, forbids women on "his" farm from working or driving the 'Mech, and the farm subsequently deteriorates while Rance Mason sexually assaults young Callie and voices interest in her much younger sister. The situation comes to a head in 3039 when a band of marauders appear who count a dilapidated Locust BattleMech among their forces. Callie has an argument with her stepfather and refuses to defend him with her father's rifle; her mother will hear nothing about Mason having assaulted Callie. Callie runs off with her little sister and hides. While the raiders kill her mother and stepfather, she mounts the Ranchhand, attacks the Locust with it and flees towards a herd of Range-bull cattle where she invokes a stampede that brings down the Locust. She then proceeds to kill each and every marauder on the farm with the AgroMech's machine gun."

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Simply called the MiningMech, the MM-1 is a standard humanoid IndustrialMech designed for asteroid mining.

Pirates of Penance

You can possible look here to see if any book about this era mention the use of Industrial 'Mechs for combat:

• MechWarrior: Age of Destruction
  
• MechWarrior: Dark Age

Hopefully others have useful information for you.

[Koniving]

Thank you.

[Pht]

"Patriot's stand," by mike moscoe does a lot more than just mention industrial type 'mechs.

http://www.bookfinde...sic&st=sr&ac=qr

[CyclonerM]

I remember a Dark Age novel (maybe Shadows of War?) in which one of the main characters pilots a ForestMech or something like that. It cuts trees to make wood, essentially And he uses it for some time.

[kardam]

CyclonerM, on 18 May 2014 - 10:14 AM, said:

I remember a Dark Age novel (maybe Shadows of War?) in which one of the main characters pilots a ForestMech or something like that. It cuts trees to make wood, essentially And he uses it for some time.

sounds as epic as this
http://www.penny-arc...omic/2007/04/27

[CyclonerM]

kardam, on 18 May 2014 - 10:23 AM, said:

sounds as epic as this
http://www.penny-arc...omic/2007/04/27

Lol i think it was why i stopped reading it
Even if i remember he was attacked at some point and there was some combat

[kardam]

CyclonerM, on 18 May 2014 - 10:58 AM, said:

Lol i think it was why i stopped reading it
Even if i remember he was attacked at some point and there was some combat

Attacked in a forest, you say... By Ewoks?

[YaKillinMeSmalls]

Mercenary's Star also features some agromechs modified for combat. Offhand, I recall that the rebels on Verthandi modified some Loggermechs and Pickermechs with lasers and machineguns. There's also an un-named and barely described agromech modified the same way (and rigged with explosives) that appears in the opening chapters of Falcon Guard.

Also see http://www.sarna.net.../IndustrialMech

Edited by YaKillinMeSmalls, 18 May 2014 - 11:28 AM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

As mentioned before - Dark Age featured a lot of the non-Battle mechs.

I didn't care much for most of the Dark Age stuff I read - but there was some good book in there as well.

None of the non-Dark Age books I have really have any though - so I cannot be much more help than that.

[mithril coyote]

CyclonerM, on 18 May 2014 - 10:14 AM, said:

I remember a Dark Age novel (maybe Shadows of War?) in which one of the main characters pilots a ForestMech or something like that. It cuts trees to make wood, essentially And he uses it for some time.

Ghostwar, by Stackpole. first book in the mechwarrior Dark Age novel line. Mason, the main character, pilots a forestry mech in the opening chapters (he's a lumberjack at the time), then after he gets caught in an ambush by the planet Helen's local terrorist movement (and ebarress the local cops with how he gets out of it), he gets fired. later on in the first half of the novel he gets to pilot a mining-mech, culminating in a short fight with a repubic knight and her centurion.
the 2nd half of the novel has a few revelations about who and what he is, and rather more conventional mech combat.

its actually a very good book, one of the best of the early dark ages novels

Edited by mithril coyote, 21 May 2014 - 09:24 AM.

[Alaskan Nobody]

mithril coyote, on 21 May 2014 - 09:18 AM, said:

its actually a very good book, one of the best of the early dark ages novels

Fixed that for you - it was by far one of the best of any that I read anyways.
(even though it had nearly the same plot as one of his fantasy novels....)