BattleTech is a science-fiction universe akin to Star Trek or Star Wars. It began with a board game/wargame, designed by FASA in 1984. The game simulates warfare in the distant future of the 31st century, where humans battle in gigantic walking machines powered by fusion reactors (known as BattleMechs), tanks, spaceships and aircraft, wielding weapons such as lasers, particle projection cannons, Gauss rifles, autocannons, and Missiles (coming in both Long, and short range flavors). As the game and related stories are centered around the BattleMechs and warfare, it can be considered a type of a military space opera. BattleTech was originally released under the name BattleDroids, but was renamed with the release of the second edition due to George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd. holding a trademark on the term droid. BattleTech has won three Origins Awards and its various spinoffs and expansions several more. The designs of the original 'Mechs were transplanted from Macross and other anime, but due to legal issues those images are no longer used.

An estimated twenty-five million people have played a BattleTech or MechWarrior game or read a BattleTech or MechWarrior novel, and at least ten million people have played the BattleTech computer games. More than eleven million copies of MechWarrior PC games and a similar number of Dark Age Collectable Miniatures Game figures have been sold to date. Over three hundred and fifty different BattleTech/MechWarrior game and toy products have been produced to date; several products, such as the Technical Readout series, the core rulebook and base box set, have been in continuous print (in one form or another) since publication. More than five thousand World Wide Web pages have been created to date by the online BattleTech community.

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People who wanted info on the BattleTech Summit, heres the map we developed for the next 100 years: http://yfrog.com/5kv18xj
catalystgamelab (CatalystGameLab) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:41:15 -0000
People who wanted info on the BattleTech Summit, heres the map we developed for the next 100 years: http://yfrog.com/5kv18xj
Feeling much nostalgia after seeing this. Grabbing torrents of BattleTech stuff now. http://bit.ly/1HGkjc
echoz (Jeremy Foo) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:08:21 -0000
Feeling much nostalgia after seeing this. Grabbing torrents of BattleTech stuff now. http://bit.ly/1HGkjc
Going to play old school Battletech tonight ;) Working on fixing our Exabyte Storageloader VXA-320 SCSI to Xserve issues.
mattburgess (Matt Burgess) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:56:12 -0000
Going to play old school Battletech tonight ;) Working on fixing our Exabyte Storageloader VXA-320 SCSI to Xserve issues.
Setting up BattleTech missions for tomorrow night. We might play two at once.
MerricB (Merric Blackman) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:44:47 -0000
Setting up BattleTech missions for tomorrow night. We might play two at once.
Just read a comment on a review of 'Battletech', that described it as "like Ladyhawke on cocaine".
radioovermoscow (Radio Over Moscow) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:24:48 -0000
Just read a comment on a review of 'Battletech', that described it as "like Ladyhawke on cocaine".
Putz, agora deu vontade de jogar Battletech, o jogo de tabuleiro mesmo. Cadê o Minoru nessas horas?
crowmorgan (Felipe Crow) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:29:04 -0000
Putz, agora deu vontade de jogar Battletech, o jogo de tabuleiro mesmo. Cadê o Minoru nessas horas?

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