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[Jacob]

I am nearly 100% green when it comes to battletech universe so i would be thankful if someone would put topics that could be considered an must read, also i wouldnt mind book titles.

Edited by jacob, 01 November 2011 - 10:32 AM.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

A great place to start is Mektek.net

We'll help you get started in the right direction with everything Battletech.

[Paladin1]

A better place to start would be over at www.battletech.com

You know, the OFFICIAL Battletech portal? Anything you want to know can be found there.

[Atlas3060]

True but there should also be a newbie thread stickied at some point.

[bloodnor]

watch this embeding is not working for me i have no idea why so no need to point that out so i have just put the link in as normal

its an early to mid 90s cartoon called BATTLETECH and its still awesome with some CGI in there aswell

Edited by bloodnor, 30 December 2012 - 07:25 AM.

[Seijin Dinger]

Another great resource is Sarna
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page

[Kelb]

I thought there was a newbie thread or area. It is mostly for MWO though. As for book titles Stockpole books are great for the politics, I liked the Grey Death books for the world of mercenaries.

[Carnivoris]

bloodnor, on 30 December 2012 - 07:12 AM, said:

watch this embeding is not working for me i have no idea why so no need to point that out so i have just put the link in as normal

its an early to mid 90s cartoon called BATTLETECH and its still awesome with some CGI in there aswell

well, there goes the rest of my day

[Pyrrho]

Carnivoris, on 30 December 2012 - 07:43 AM, said:

well, there goes the rest of my day

New Years 3050; NOOOO!!!

[Vassago Rain]

Atlas tries to explain.

[Sug]

Vassago Rain, on 30 December 2012 - 08:19 AM, said:

That didn't make sense.

[Joseph Mallan]

Vassago Rain, on 30 December 2012 - 08:19 AM, said:

Atlas tries to explain.

You missed the space Chaing Dynasty Warriors in their Terra Cotta Warrior bots! You can't leave out a stereotype!

[Vassago Rain]

Sug, on 30 December 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

That didn't make sense.

It's battletech. It doesn't make sense.

[MustrumRidcully]

Sug, on 30 December 2012 - 10:26 AM, said:

That didn't make sense.

Space Nazis are obviously Clans (they are better than you in all ways - better pilots, better weapons, better tech), The space telecom is Comstar. I presume this means that Comstar fought of the CLans until the other big interstellar nation could catch up.

I am not sure if the 350 year robot is refering to a different franchise or the superior Star League tech. I suspect the former.

[Wraith05]

MustrumRidcully, on 30 December 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

Space Nazis are obviously Clans (they are better than you in all ways - better pilots, better weapons, better tech), The space telecom is Comstar. I presume this means that Comstar fought of the CLans until the other big interstellar nation could catch up.

I am not sure if the 350 year robot is refering to a different franchise or the superior Star League tech. I suspect the former.

the 350 year skull faced robot is refering to the atlas. Since it was tech that wasn't fully lost and has better armor and weapon loadouts than a lot of the newer tech.

[soarra]

http://www.sarna.net...ttleTech_novels This is the list i went by when i read the novels.

[Vassago Rain]

MustrumRidcully, on 30 December 2012 - 10:40 AM, said:

Space Nazis are obviously Clans (they are better than you in all ways - better pilots, better weapons, better tech), The space telecom is Comstar. I presume this means that Comstar fought of the CLans until the other big interstellar nation could catch up.

I am not sure if the 350 year robot is refering to a different franchise or the superior Star League tech. I suspect the former.

The only thing missing is the mass sodukos the space samurai use when they commit SHAMEFUR DISPRAYS. It gets so bad sometimes, they have to ban swords.

350 year old tech is reference to the atlas, which is always a functional mech, compared to the 40 million dollar gladiator mechs on Solaris, or some of the more terrible clan mechs. For reasons we will never know, an atlas is 9 million, while a clan light can be as much as 25 million.

[Riktor Voshek]

I'm a bit scared to ask this here, but are the books... you know, any good?

[Vassago Rain]

Riktor Voshek, on 30 December 2012 - 11:03 AM, said:

I'm a bit scared to ask this here, but are the books... you know, any good?

They're like the 40k black library books. Some are awful, others are okay.

[Sug]

Almost afraid to ask but who are the space Jews??

Vassago Rain, on 30 December 2012 - 11:07 AM, said:

They're like the 40k black library books. Some are awful, others are okay.

Some are definitely better than others but there's none that were so bad I couldn't finish. Talking about the old "Battletech" ones. The new "Mechwarrior" ones didn't interest me.