10 replies to this topic

[Hippykicker]

all i know is that it's awesome. can somebody point me in the right direction to look up the storyline and stuff? i see a lot of things that would make sense to me if i knew about the mechwarrior universe

[Drow]

sarna.net

[Odin]

Here you go

http://mwomercs.com/...-pretty-please/

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page



Welcome

[Nash]

yeah there is a lot of info at sarna.net

but if you want to get a little background by reading books you could try to find some battletech books ^^

[Zoghak]

timeline overview: http://www.battletech.com/eras/ and as mentioned before you can find pretty much everything there is to know about battletech on: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Main_Page

[Razor Kotovsky]

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

[Stormwolf]

Here's a guide to the Battletech universe:

http://bg.battletech...iverseGuide.pdf

This gives you a idea of what's going on and who's who.

[Chaotic Cannon]

Another good thread to find links to info on the game and the series overall for the newbies/noobs to get up to speed!

Thanks people

[Atlas3060]

I once made a thread which helped folks into the gaming universe. Hopefully this will be useful.
Welcome to the Universe.

[Eiki]

Just watch the Battletech Cartoon on Youtube!

[Hajima Kuroko]

From one relative newb to another, welcome!

While aware of BT for decades now tangentially via other pen and paper RPG interests, it wasn't until this game I really looked into it.

Here are some resources I found useful.

This "new to Battletech?" link is very informative, and the various free PDFs they offer will give you a solid foundation. What follows is a mostly a breakdown of those resources.


The Universe guide and fiction sampler and BattleTech Eras I found to be very useful for setting the tone, with 0 mechanics.

More free fiction can be found at Battlecorps

If, like me, you want more crunch and to see where the basis for some of the in-game mechanics come from read the board game's quick start rules and the RPG's quick start rules though I get the feeling the board game rules are used almost exclusively.

Then if you want to go nuts you can buy the various core rulebooks but for this game's purposes only the first two books are necessary.

As can no doubt tell, I found a great deal to enjoy in reading all of this, and I suspect you might as well, if you like what you've seen thus far.

Good luck, Mechwarrior, hope to see you on the battlefield soon!