Classic BattleTech - Publications

Publications

The latest iteration of the BattleTech rules is Total Warfare (2006), a streamlined compendium intended to integrate the numerous rules sets that have governed the series into a single, comprehensive volume that details the tournament legal and/or standard rules set for game play. Total Warfare is supplemented by six or more other books (some pending):

• Total Warfare, the primary rulebook for BattleTech. It also includes the rules for playing the air combat game of AeroTech as well.
• TechManual, which presents the design rules for making custom units that comply with the standard game play rules.
• Tactical Operations, offering advanced rules and advanced or experimental equipment beyond those in Total Warfare and TechManual.
• Strategic Operations, updating BattleForce 2 & Aerotech 2 Revised to provide a faster-paced or large-scale version of the game as well as adding advanced rules campaign elements such as repair, customization & salvage to the tactical game.
• Interstellar Operations(pending), advanced rules to allow the player become star lords of Succession State or Khan of their respective Clan. This is similar to previous FASA product named Succession Wars and rules found in FanPro source book named Combat Operations. And according to Technical Readout: 3085 will also have the full updated rules for Land-Air Mechs.
• A Time of War - (the 4th edition of the BattleTech Roleplaying Game), describing how to create characters and run RPG missions
• Universe Book(pending), which provides background and details on the game's fictional universe.

Fantasy Productions (FanPro) intended these six books to be the official core rules set that will govern all gameplay within the BattleTech franchise, be it ground combat, space combat or role-playing. Since 2007, Catalyst Game Labs has assumed control of the franchise. The core rule plans are continuing to be refined as rule books come out.