Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex
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Description
Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex, while handling only vehicles, as Technical Readout: 3026 does, focuses primarily on civilian models, including police and security versions. It is written from the perspective of senior IrTech executive collecting information of potential areas for production expansion and includes IndustrialMechs.
From the back cover
| “ | MechWarriors receive all the glory; aerospace fighter pilots a close second; vehicles are considered the workhorses of any military; infantry are even given their day in the sun in the minds of the common citizen. But no battle could be waged, nor won, without the mammoth apparatus of support vehicles that feed the war machines of the Great Houses. From cargo trucks to tank airships, airborne MASH to communication satellites, armored transport rails to coastal patrol boats, hauler exoskeletons to LoaderMechs, even hover and wheeled police cruisers or civilian vehicles conscripted into the military: the support vehicle is the true backbone of any military machine.
Built using the construction rules found in Combat Equipment, Classic BattleTech Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex provides a never-before-seen look at the support vehicles behind the militaries of every faction, as well as a slice of every day life in the BattleTech universe. From tracked land-trains to police cruisers, Luxury VTOLs to Fix-wing passenger planes, satellites, super-heavy naval surface ships, IndustrialMechs and more: the gamut of the BattleTech universe, fully illustrated for the first time. |
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Contents
- Introduction
- Lucy Tsagarides, Chief Operating Officer, Irian Media Interstellar (Charybdis Publishing) to Chris Blocher (1 December, 3070)
- Wheeled Support Vehicles
- Tracked Support Vehicles
- Hover Support Vehicles
- VTOL Support Vehicles
- WiGE Support Vehicles
| Coanda (personal sports craft) | Quicksilver (personal sports craft) | Cormorant (medium cargo craft) | Fulmat (patrol craft) | Koi (heavy transport) |
| Ryu (heavy transport) |
- Airship Support Vehicles
- Fixed Wing Support Vehicles
- Satellite Support Vehicles
| SEU-193D Starcomm (communications) | D40 (communications) | SneakSat (covert communications) | SkyWard Model XII (warning) | Figyel II (science) |
| PowerSat (power) | Cassion (payload) |
- Rail Support Vehicles
- Naval (Surface) Vessel Support Vehicles
- Naval (Submarine) Vessel Support Vehicles
| JN-002 Jonah (minisub) | Baleena (passenger sub) | Seahorse (cargo) | Verne (cargo) | Triton (missile sub) |
| Lysander (carrier sub) |
- Exoskeletons
- IndustrialMechs
Notes
One of the larger Technical Readouts, Vehicle Annex is quite expansive and introduces the Wing-in-Ground-Effect craft, with the construction rules to follow in Tech Manual.