BattleTech
In the hard-hitting, war-torn interstellar future of the 31st century and beyond comes Battlefield Technology, or BattleTech. Fire up your ’Mech’s fusion reactor, secure your neurohelmet, and wade into battle with tales from the merciless front lines of the Succession Wars, the Clan Invasion, The Jihad, the Dark Age, on up to the new ilClan era.
Read stories, conspiracy theory articles, game scenarios, and more from veteran BattleTech authors, fan favorites, and some new recruits.
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BattleTech: Shrapnel Issue 14
WATCH YOUR SIX!
Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine brings you more hard-hitting BattleMech action from the heavy-metal wars of the 31st century and beyond—but don’t let your guard down!
A loyal Republic of the Sphere MechWarrior must make a life-or-death decision when catastrophic news from Terra throws everything into chaos. A sheriff on a Periphery backwater planet investigates mysterious murders terrorizing a community. A desperate survivor of the Clan Invasion seeks revenge against the Jade Falcons while he still has the chance…
In this issue, you’ll travel to the Hanseatic League in the Deep Periphery, where the Scorpion Empire will stop at nothing to obtain a priceless Star League-era relic. Then witness the first Marauder built in the new millennium walk off the assembly line, face a so-called zombie ’Mech arisen from the grave, and discover how to effectively weaponize a BattleMech’s operating system.
No matter the situation, you can stay out of harm’s way by reviewing a most-wanted list of criminals and assassins, a roster of the Marian Hegemony’s Legion of the Dead, technical readouts, unit and planet digests, playable scenarios, a campaign set in the resource-poor wilds of the Third Succession War, and more—all by battle-hardened BattleTech authors and some new boot-camp graduates:
Bryan Young
Chris Hussey
Marc Follin
Jaymie Wagner
James Bixby
J. D. Neal
Jeremy A. Reynolds
David Stier
Geoff “Doc” Swift
Étienne Charron-Willard
James Kirtley
Matt Larson
Lorcan Nagle
Eric Salzman
Zac Schwartz
Tom Stanley
Stephen Toropov
Chris Wheeler
Millennium Marauder:
Jarvis Clayton has worked at the General Motors for all of his adult life. Medically disqualified from serving in the armed forces, he’s resigned himself to working on and building ‘Mechs with the hopes of one day becoming one of the regular pilots who gets to move them around the plant. On 01 January 3000, he gets to do just that.
What started on what should have been a quiet day during a holiday turns chaotic in an instant as a raid from House Liao lands. Jarvis is thrust into a fight or flight situation in which the wrong decision could cost him his job… or even his life!
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BattleTech: Shrapnel Issue 19
LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP!
Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your survival guide through the explosive minefields and incoming missile salvos in pulse-pounding tales of BattleMech combat on the battlefields of the 31st century and beyond!
Facing a technologically superior opponent, two mercenaries who hate each other’s guts must either work together or die alone. After suffering a bitter defeat, a contingent of Spirit Cats seeks to atone for their failure by retrieving a ’Mech of vital importance to their people, by any means necessary. Former Exarch Damien Redburn offers a MechWarrior from the isolated Republic Remnant the opportunity to strike back at the enemy who humbled her, but will her shot at vengeance be worth the cost?
In this issue, you’ll go to the Southwest Trinity Worlds, where a bandit raid forces a ’Mech technician into the pilot seat to protect the rest of her unit. You’ll wander the forests on the tree-choked planet of Sherwood, where a young lumberjack dreams of victory in arena combat at the controls of his ForestryMech. And in the Deep Periphery, you’ll visit Eden, where two former Star League MechWarriors who retired to farm life find themselves caught in the crossfire of the Pentagon Civil War.
Navigate the dangers of any battlefield and find your way to victory with tools like a technical article about ’Mech-identification systems, a tribute to the exploits of fallen heroes of the Fronc Reaches’ Colonial Marshals, a look at the meaning of chivalry in the Order of the Saber, an in-depth history of the Jade Phoenix OmniMech, unit digests, technical readouts, and more—from BattleTech veterans and the newest recruits:
Russell Zimmerman
James D. Long
Jaymie Wagner
A. T. Agostino
James Hojnowski
CJ Irelan
Jered Lobban
Kingsley Montgomery
Jason Palmatier
Jeremy A. Reynolds
Alayna M. Weathers
Matthew Cross
Johannes Heidler
Ken’ Horner
Brian Kittrick
Christopher Purnell
CL Quigley
Craig A. Reed, Jr.
Eric Salzman
Geoff “Doc” Swift
Eden Lost:
In the Pentagon Worlds of Clan Space; Zavier and Lei Pickett of the SLDF have laid down their weapons and taken up a peaceful life of farming. However not all is right in paradise as the old ways are hard to give up and the Picketts find themselves constantly besieged by Capellan separatists. The gangs constantly harass Zavier while trying to recruit Lei to their cause.
When General DeChavilier is later killed by the separatist gangs and the Great Father himself passes away from a heart attack, the peaceful life that the Picketts once dreamed of is torn from them forever. They then have to decide if it is better for them to stay and fight for their little scrap of land, or place their faith with the untested leadership of the Great Father’s son to go on yet another Exodus into the stars.
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