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−	Launched in early 2012 as "a new type of [[BattleTech]] fiction," '''Blitzkrieg''' was a short-lived line of electronic [[:Category:Short Stories|novellas or short stories]] published through [[Catalyst Game Labs]] in [[w:EPUB|EPUB]] format. It was meant to augment [[BattleCorps]], not replace it, and the stories were made available to BattleCorps subscribers in [[w:PDF|PDF]] format as part of that subscription service accordingly.	+	Launched in early 2012 as "a new type of [[BattleTech]] fiction", '''Blitzkrieg''' is a line of electronic short novels published through [[Catalyst Game Labs]] in [[w:EPUB|EPUB]] format. It is meant to augment [[BattleCorps]], not replace it, and the books were made available to BattleCorps subscribers in [[w:PDF|PDF]] format for no extra cost accordingly.
−	Only five fiction pieces were published in this format. The first two Blitzkrieg publications were the respective first parts of ''[[Ghost Bear's Lament]]'' (Part One: ''Instrument of Destruction'') and ''[[Operation Ice Storm (novel)|Operation Ice Storm]]'' (Part One: ''The Frost Advances''), which were published along with the Blitzkrieg announcement on 13 February 2012; the final Blitzkrieg publication was a stand-alone novella, ''[[Vengeance (novella)|Vengeance]]'', published in December of 2012. Blitzkrieg was discontinued again after 2012.	+	The spelling of "Blitzkrieg" is somewhat arbitrary: In announcements, Blitzkrieg has been spelled thusly or alternatively, in all-capital letters; on published book covers, it is also spelled "BlitzKrieg" (with a capital "K" in the middle). Author [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] said that he thinks of it as a regular German noun with a capital letter at the beginning, but none in the middle.<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,16145.msg370734.html#msg370734 this posting] on the official forums</ref>
−	The spelling of "Blitzkrieg" is somewhat arbitrary: In announcements, Blitzkrieg has been spelled thusly or alternatively, in all-capital letters; on published book covers, it is also spelled "BlitzKrieg" (with a capital "K" in the middle). Author [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] said that he thought of it as a regular German noun with a capital letter at the beginning, but none in the middle.<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,16145.msg370734.html#msg370734 this posting] on the official forums</ref>	+	The first two Blitzkrieg publications were ''[[Ghost Bear's Lament]]'' (Part One: ''Instrument of Destruction'') and ''[[Operation Ice Storm (novel)|Operation Ice Storm]]'' (Part One: ''The Frost Advances''), published along with the Blitzkrieg announcement on 13 February 2012.
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		+	The Blitzkrieg format was discontinued after the publication of the altogether four parts of the two aforementioned two-part novellas plus another stand-alone novella, ''[[Vengeance (Blitzkrieg)|Vengeance]]'' by Jason Schmetzer. It was apparently lumped in with the [[BattleTech Legends]] format of EPUB novels and anthologies from 2015 onwards.
	==References==		==References==
−	* [http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4072 Blitzkrieg announcement] on BattleTech.com	+	*[http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4072 Blitzkrieg announcement] on BattleTech.com
−	* [http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4062 BLITZKRIEG: What's It All About?] blog by [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] on BattleTech.com	+	*[http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4062 BLITZKRIEG: What's It All About?] blog by [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] on BattleTech.com
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Launched in early 2012 as "a new type of [[BattleTech]] fiction", '''Blitzkrieg''' is a line of electronic short novels published through [[Catalyst Game Labs]] in [[w:EPUB|EPUB]] format. It is meant to augment [[BattleCorps]], not replace it, and the books were made available to BattleCorps subscribers in [[w:PDF|PDF]] format for no extra cost accordingly. The spelling of "Blitzkrieg" is somewhat arbitrary: In announcements, Blitzkrieg has been spelled thusly or alternatively, in all-capital letters; on published book covers, it is also spelled "BlitzKrieg" (with a capital "K" in the middle). Author [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] said that he thinks of it as a regular German noun with a capital letter at the beginning, but none in the middle.<ref>In [http://bg.battletech.com/forums/index.php/topic,16145.msg370734.html#msg370734 this posting] on the official forums</ref> The first two Blitzkrieg publications were ''[[Ghost Bear's Lament]]'' (Part One: ''Instrument of Destruction'') and ''[[Operation Ice Storm (novel)|Operation Ice Storm]]'' (Part One: ''The Frost Advances''), published along with the Blitzkrieg announcement on 13 February 2012. The Blitzkrieg format was discontinued after the publication of the altogether four parts of the two aforementioned two-part novellas plus another stand-alone novella, ''[[Vengeance (Blitzkrieg)|Vengeance]]'' by Jason Schmetzer. It was apparently lumped in with the [[BattleTech Legends]] format of EPUB novels and anthologies from 2015 onwards. ==References== *[http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4072 Blitzkrieg announcement] on BattleTech.com *[http://bg.battletech.com/?p=4062 BLITZKRIEG: What's It All About?] blog by [[Steven Mohan Jr.]] on BattleTech.com <references/> [[Category:Product Groups]]

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