Combat Operations

Description

Combat Operations is a rule expansion for the CBT game system and provides background material on how war is conducted in the BattleTech universe. As such, it doubles both as a sourcebook and a rules supplement. It also doubles as a method for transferring gaming data between the CBT:RPG and CBT board game.

Contents

• 'By Any Means' - an introductory fiction story
• War and Its Makers - a series of essays on:
  • Events as justification for war
  • Troop types
  • Battlefield tactics
  • Strategy
  • Grand strategy
  • Logistics
  • Communications
  • Medicine
  • Law & order
  • Combat related fields:
    • Administration
    • Battlefield Cleanup
  • Military intelligence
  • Psychological Ooperations
• BattleTech Operations Rules - details expansion and strategic options
  • Force creation rules
  • Force sizes
  • Purchasing supplies
  • Salaries
  • New equipment assign rules
  • Morale & fatigue
  • Maitenance, Repair & medical services
• Infantry Platoon Construction - rules for creating new types of infantry forces
  • Converting RPG weapons & equipment into CBT
  • Assembling squads and platoons
  • Disposable weapons
  • Calculating Battle Value (v. 1.0)
  • Costs of weapons, equipment & modes of transport
• AeroSpace 2 Operations Rules - details expansion and strategic options
  • Boarding Actions
  • Crew quality
  • Advanced Sensors
  • Force composition
  • Zero-G operations
  • Grounded DropShip
• Linked Scenarios - rules to link individual scenarios into a dynamic campaign
  • Assembling a force
  • actions
  • Campaign scores
  • Scenario determination
  • Campaign goals
  • New scenario types: probes, recon raids, base attacks
  • Updated terrain
• BattleTech Strategic Game or "Inner Sphere In Flames" - rules for strategic-level of play, to include complete campaigns and wars, and involving economic, political and technological aspects.
  • Economics & resources
  • Interests and personalities
  • Espionage
  • Communications and orders
  • Technology
  • Combat
• Force Faction Tables - provides simple data (BV, tonnage, cost and availability data) on combat equipment for different factions
  • Star League (2750 & 3061)
  • Clans (general and individual)
  • Inner Sphere (general and individual)
  • Word of Blake
  • Mercenary (general)
  • Periphery (general and individual)
• Record Sheets
  • AeroTech 2
    • BattleMech
    • Battle Armor
    • ProtoMech
  • Level 3 Infantry

Notes

CBT has provided rulesets for all level of play: individual (CBT:RPG), squad (BattleTroops), lance & company (CBT board game) and battalion & higher (BattleForce 2). The BattleTech Strategic Game (usually refered to as ISIF or Inner Sphere In Flames) replaces the Succession Wars strategic game (published 1987) with a lot more rules and less dependence on luck. Where the previous incarnation was a board game, ISIF is role-playing at the strategic level. FanPro has continued to support the game in later products that allow for strategic play.