![]() If you want primer on the universe fluff, there are a few books that do this well. Newer ones tend to act like updates of the older books, giving you a general idea of what each regiment has been doing, along with tables showing what percentage of their regiment is equipped with upgraded (3050+ Tech) mechs versus older succession wars tech. The older Field Manual books used to be specifically for each faction, and went into further detail about each regiment. Maybe a handful, but what they're really there for is to describe the various regiments you'd find in the storyline at that given point in time, how they fight, how well equipped they are. They don't contain much in terms of the storyline. Field Manuals are likewise mostly about fluff. It does not go in-depth enough to tell you which criticals go where. What it does do is give you an idea of how a mech looks, who uses it, What it has, and what it was intended to be used for. Bringing a TRO to a tabletop game wouldn't do you any good. They contain the basics regarding what a 'mech contains, but it's mainly there for artwork and fluff. Sure, they can contain Aerospace fighters, Tanks, Battle Armor and the like, but most folks buy them for the 'mechs. Technical Readouts are like Bathroom readers about Mechs. "Falcon Rising" Robert Thurston Twilight of the Clans - Book 8 "FreeBirth" Robert Thurston Twilight of the Clans - Book 4 "Falcon Guard" Robert Thurston Jade Phoenix Trilogy - Book 3] "Bloodname" Robert Thurston Jade Phoenix Trilogy - Book 2 "Way of the Clans" Robert Thurston Jade Phoenix Trilogy - Book 1 Stackpole Birth of the Federated Commonwealth-Book 3 Stackpole Birth of the Federated Commonwealth-Book 2 Stackpole Birth of the Federated Commonwealth-Book 1 This link is for all the battle-tech books printed with a very short description, and identifying the series books. This link is the standard Sarna site link, and it's history starts in the 15 century and goes to the 32th century. If you want physical copies of the books, be aware that some of them are now "out of print". Now if you what to read all the books for free, (e-books) online I also have a link for that. This is the 3050 to 3061 era with recommended reading and a list of major events that happened during that timeline.įor the other era's click on the selection on the right side. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Reference the books and a timeline, start here: Most newer books are in the original electronic format. ![]() Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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