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[SmilingBandit77]

My fiance has gotten into Battletech after playing the Virtual World pods at Gencon Indy. And even played a few tabletop games and liked them. Headshotting my mech in her first tabletop game definately helped.

But back to my question... I have 70+ novels and have no idea where to have her start. She reads really fast so I need a list to point her instead of hunting through all the books for timestamps and galactic references for those without chapter timestamps... and then of course there are the 10 year later books that through me off when I tried making the list myself.... anyone know? I'm not wanting publish dates, but in-story chronology.

[Nav]

Try this...

Decision at Thunder Rift
The Sword and the Dagger
Mercenary's Star
The Price of Glory
Warrior: En Garde
Warrior: Riposte
Wolves on the Border
Warrior: Coupé
Heir to the Dragon
Lethal Heritage
Blood Legacy
Lost Destiny
Way of the Clans
Bloodname
Falcon Guard
Wolf Pack
Natural Selection
Ideal War
Main Event
Blood of Heroes
Far Country
Assumption of Risk
D.R.T.
Close Quarters
Bred for War
I Am Jade Falcon
Highlander Gambit
Tactics of Duty
Star Lord
Malicious Intent
Hearts of Chaos
Operation Excalibur
Black Dragon
Impetus of War
Double-Blind
Binding Force
Exodus Road
Grave Covenant
The Hunters
Freebirth
Sword and Fire
Shadows of War
Prince of Havoc
Falcon Rising
Threads of Ambition
The Killing Fields
Ghost of Winter
Roar of Honor
By Blood Betrayed
Mel Odom
Dagger Point
Illusions of Victory
Measure of a Hero
Path of Glory
Flashpoint
Test of Vengeance
Patriots and Tyrants
Call of Duty
Initiation to War
The Dying Time
Imminent Crisis
Storms of Fate
Operation Audacity
Endgame
The Legend of the Jade Phoenix Trilogy
Shadows of Faith

Edited by Nav, 24 January 2012 - 03:19 AM.

[Mason Grimm]

These types of posts belong HERE

[DuskAU]

Hey mate, found this with a google search:

http://www.stargazerserv.com/csv/btech/battletech_novel_list.htm

Not sure how accurate it is, as I have only just got into Mech warrior, but I am interested in reading these also!

[TheSassySquatch]

http://www.stargazer..._novel_list.htm

[Black Sun]

BIackice, on 24 January 2012 - 03:35 AM, said:

http://www.stargazer..._novel_list.htm

I use this one as a reference as well ever since my brother had me read Main Event and got me hooked, especially to Mercs and Clanners. This is an especially good guide chronologically IMO.

[CoffiNail]

WHy, oh why does everyone say BoK before Jade Phoenix? JP takes place before BoK. Gives a better understanding of the Clans.

I go JP 1 &2, BoK 1 & 2, then JP 3 and then BoK 3 that is more chronological

I want to make/find a master BT fiction list that is in chronological order. From the Star League to the Dark Ages. With Books and Battlecorps fiction.

[Darth Anubis]

Has anyone noticed that the Novels are no longer available for Kindle PDF on Amazon, Battleshop, and other sites? Does anyone know why Catalyst has taken these novels down?

[CoffiNail]

Darth Anubis, on 25 January 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

Has anyone noticed that the Novels are no longer available for Kindle PDF on Amazon, Battleshop, and other sites? Does anyone know why Catalyst has taken these novels down?

Just the kindle format? Last i saw which was not too long ago... all the books they have converted to digital format are still there.

[Jaroth Corbett]

Still are.

e.g. http://www.amazon.co...pd_rhf_se_p_t_1

As far as the novel go chronologically:

*Pre-Clan - http://csha.roosterv...ne_pre-clan.png

Post-Clan - http://csha.roosterv...e_post-clan.png

Fed-Com Civil War - http://csha.roosterv...meline_fccw.png

Dark Age Novels - http://csha.roosterv...ls_timeline.pdf

*Please note at the time of the pic, the OP did not include the Jade Phoenix Trilogy. He says

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* I should note that with the release of Era Report: 3052 and its biographical entry on Aidan Pryde, it is possible now to add in the Jade Phoenix Trilogy, but I haven't yet gotten around to doing that.

Edited by Jaroth Winson, 26 January 2012 - 06:35 AM.

[Fiachdubh]

CoffiNail, on 24 January 2012 - 08:24 AM, said:

WHy, oh why does everyone say BoK before Jade Phoenix? JP takes place before BoK. Gives a better understanding of the Clans.

I would say BoK before JP because the less you know about the clans when reading BoK the better and more enjoyable they are. If you know the story and reasons behind the Clans and the invasion from reading JP first then the feeling of confusion and panic created by the mysterious invaders in BoK is gone.

If I was making a list for a BT new comer I would avoid any books featuring the Clans before reading BoK even if they were already aware of who they are from the games. In fact I woud probably have BoK pretty early in the list as they were, IMO, the best for getting people hooked on the BT universe and giving them a good idea of the whole political side of it with all the constant betrayels and what not wheras some of the other early books were a bit poor and descriptions of the technology were not very consistant from one book to another, The Sword and Dagger springs to mind. Also being a new universe some authors did not yet have a good grasp of how Mechs would move giving us scenes more suitable to Robotech than Battletech.

Edited by Fiachdubh, 26 January 2012 - 07:06 AM.

[CoffiNail]

Neat Timelines, I would like a more extensive one done to include BattleCorps works.