Tactical Handbook
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| Tactical Handbook | |
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| Attribution | |
| Development | *Rob Cruz |
| Writing | *Jim Long |
| Illustrations | *Doug Chaffee |
| Publication information | |
| Type | Rules Expansion |
| Publisher | FASA |
| Released | 1994 |
| Pages | 79 |
| Product Code | 8630 |
| ISBN | 1-55560-212-6 |
[edit] Description
The BattleTech Tactical Handbook was the first expansion to the BattleTech board game that included so called Level 3 optional rules and equipment. These rules included the much-maligned Combat Value system for balancing force and the Double-Blind rules that enable players and a gamemaster to allow both sides the use of hidden units. Plenty of new arms, armor, and ammunition debuted. Some of the equipment and rules were later included in Maximum Tech.
[edit] Contents
- Introduction
- New Rules
- Thunder LRMs
- Double-Blind Rules
- Operational Game
- Combat Values
- Level Three Rules
- Modified Movement Sequence
- Artillery
- BattleMech Engine Explosions
- BattleMech Sensors
- Craters
- Disengaging PPC field inhibitors
- Four-Legged 'Mechs
- Hidden Placement
- Hot Loading LRMs
- Interlocking Streak Missiles
- Jumping Fire
- Land Air 'Mechs
- Line of Sight
- Partial Cover
- MechWarrior Damage
- Selecting Terrain Elevation
- New Equipment
- Ballistic Weapons
- Missile Systems
- AX (Acid) Warhead
- Anti-Personnel (AP) Warhead
- Dead-Fire Missiles
- Extended Long-Range Missiles
- HS (Heat Seeking) Warhead
- Magnetic-Pulse Warhead
- Smoke Warhead
- Streak Missile Systems
- TC (Tandem-Charge) Warhead
- Thunderbolt Launcher
- Physical Weapons
- BattleMech Accessories
- Defensive Armaments
- Static Defenses
- Bunkers
- Field Works
- Fortifications
- Installations
- MechWarrior Gear
- Ablative/Flak Cooling Suit and Vest
- Computer Voice Circuit
- SLDF Neurohelmet
- Weapon and Equipment Tables
[edit] Notes
- A number of pieces of optional equipment are carried over from Unbound, an earlier book with optional tech.
- The Tactical Handbook was the last official publication to include the rules for construction and use of Land Air 'Mechs, the previously tournament legal designs moved to optional/non-legal status with this book, signaling their decline and removal from the BattleTech universe.
- The book was written from perspective of the early to mid 3050's, including still non-tournament legal "prototype" Inner Sphere versions of the previously Clan only LB-X and Ultra Autocannons and Streak launchers which would later become Level 2 with the Field Manual: Draconis Combine and Field Manual: Free Worlds League prior to their "official" inclusion in BattleTech Master Rules.
