Battletech record sheets torrent manual#

It was the Mechs and the background universe that drew me into the game, not the game mechanics per se, and to me the Technical Readouts are an important part of the appeal. With the sheets alone the Mechs are just uniform grey stats. That being said, it is a game about giant robots, and the TROs give some character to those robots.

So strictly for game play the TROs are not necessary. These early record sheets were a dubious luxury, and people were used to filling out record sheets by hand instead.Īs time went by the rules from past TROs got absorbed by updated rule books, and FASA started generating sheets entirely by computer, making them timely and reliable, and covering virtually every variant. (I remember unpleasant disputes: 'Your left torso is off, that means your XL engine blows!' 'I'm fine, no XL slots here on my sheet.' 'It's a typo, check the TRO, do the math!' 'It's the official sheet, this is FASA gospel!') The first record sheet books were missing many variants, and they were notorious for their typos. Official record sheets would only be published later, sometimes many years later.

Battletech record sheets torrent manual#

They used to be the way new Mechs and technologies would get introduced: TRO:2750 brought the rules for Star League tech, TRO:3050 introduced Clan tech rules, TRO:3058 has IS Omnis, TRO:3060 the Protomechs. BATTLETECH FIELD MANUAL MERCENARIES Addeddate 19:10:48 Identifier BATTLETECHFIELDMANUALMERCENARIES Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6qz6pg4c Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0. I think the Technical Readouts have dropped in importance over the years. There are mixed reviews for them, including that the paper used is too thin. There are even PDF-only TROs that could have seen print prior to the newer recombinations, so I'm not sure what the grand strategy with these new ones are. (I'm also not a big fan of the necessity of ramming all the Kickstarter characters into the IlClan Recognition Guides but I simply don't have a better solution.)

I wish Catalyst would have reprinted amazing books like TRO 3039 (itself, a compilation), TRO 3050, and 3075 vs recombining select mechs into vague eras.

Ultimately, TROs are great additions to the universe lore and are handy compilations of mech designs for a given timeline, but are absolutely not essential reading. (These books rarely have tabletop-rules-relevance otherwise.) I'd also argue that the Golden Century one is deceptively anemic since it includes record sheets, though this could be a benefit for those that don't choose to use Skunkwerks, Megamek, or Flech's sheets. The newer TROs have questionable inclusions based on the title era and even exclude certain classic mechs from previous releases.