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Echoes of Steel: Dublin Dreams, Clan Wars, and the Evolving Legacy of MechWarrior 5: Clans

May 14, 2025 by Sergio Salvador Leave a Comment

The year was 1995. Dublin, a city steeped in history and a vibrant, sometimes bewildering, new world for a young exchange student like myself, became an unexpected gateway to the far-flung battlefields of the 31st century thanks to the city’s many warm and welcoming bookshops.

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech

Aussie gamers spend big: Tabletop gaming survey highlights surprising stats

April 3, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

While most gamers reported spending between $100 and $499 (in their local currency), a significant portion of Australians (twice that of Canadians and Americans) have shelled out over $1,000 on their collections.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, Cyberpunk, Dungeons & Dragons, kings of war, stats, warhamemr 40k

Iconic BattleTech goes in for Total War … but discounted in this bundle

July 29, 2024 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

We’re looking at the digital versions of a board game here, and there’s a pair: BattleTech Total War, which returns from a run in 2022, and ebook play aids in BattleTech Readouts.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, board game, bundle of holding, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs, mecha

Flash sale: BattleTech Shrapnel

June 21, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These issues are available from DriveThruFiction, and the bundle has issues 1 through to 10. The latest release is 13.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: battletech, Catalyst Game Labs, drivethrufiction

Woke wins: BattleTech fan civil war was brief and glorious

June 8, 2023 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The drama started when the incumbent moderators deleted any mention of the Battletech Pride Anthology 2023

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: battletech, Catalyst Game Labs

Physical Beginner Box for Battletech included in the new Introduction bundle

November 16, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The deal is good until about Friday 2nd of December, plus or minus timezone wiggles and comes in four tiers.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs, humble bundle

Catalyst Game Labs goes to BattleTech Total War with a Bundle

August 1, 2022 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Destiny is the 2020 edition of the MechWarrior RPG, which adapts the Cue System first seen in Shadowrun: Anarchy. The RPG, I’m told, integrates into the board game rules found in Total Warfare and its Operations handbooks.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: battletech, bundle of holding, bundles, Catalyst Game Labs

The best selling sci-fi RPGs of 2021

December 19, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The league table below shows the best selling RPG products made available on DriveThruRPG this year and which the designers have tagged sci-fi.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 2300 ad, 26 letter publishing, alien rpg, aliens: colonial marines Operations Manual, Alligator Alley Entertainment, battletech, Cepheus Deluxe, cubicle 7, drivethrurpg, Dune: Adventures in the Imperium, Esper Genesis, evil beagle games, fallout, Free League Publishing, hard wired island, Modiphius Entertainment, osprey games, Prowlers & Paragons, sci-fi, scp, Shackleton Expanse Campaign Guide, Shadowrun, star trek adventures, stargrave, stats, stellagama publishing, the between, The Gauntlet Gaming Community, traveller, wrath & glory

Humble Bundle invites you to 5D chess and mech battles

August 12, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

A chunk of the money raised in bundle sales goes to support the reading charity Worldreader.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: battletech, bundles, chess, humble bundle, sales

Routinely Itemised: RPGs #101

May 21, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s been a busy week, so sit back and treat yourself to a scroll through the headlines; sales, reviews, interviews and stats from the RPG-scene.

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 13th age, alien rpg, astate, awfully cheerful engine, battletech, brindlewood bay, candlekeep mysteries, carovea victor, chamomile has adventures, cubicle 7, Defiant Awakening, Dungeons & Dragons, fantasy age, Flash Gordon, Free League Publishing, gama, game machinery, gen con, ghostfire gaming, goodman games, GURPS, handiwork games, hasbro, jackals, Jim Pinto, jonathan hicks, lion banner games, lord of the rings, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Monte Cook Games, mork borg, My Little Pony, neverending, onyx path publishing, osprey games, Paizo Publishing, Pelgrane Press, petersen games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, postworldgames, red scar publishing, river horse, roleplay elixir, routinely itemised, Russ Morrissey, savage worlds, Skirmisher Publishing, soulbound starter set, spelljammer, starfinder, the yellow king, those dark places, Troll Lord Games, Vampire: The Masquerade, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, voxstory, wanderhome, will power games, wizards of the coast, xploringmap

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