Editing The Battle for Twycross

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{{InfoBoxProduct
| image               = The Battle For Twycross.gif
| name                = 
| type                = Scenario Pack
| author              = 
| development         = [[Sam Lewis (person)|Sam Lewis]] (Production Manager)<br>[[Donna Ippolito]] (Senior Editor)<br>[[Kent Stolt]] (Assistant Editor)
| primarywriting      = [[Anthony Pryor (person)|Anthony Pryor]]
| pages               = 56
| cover               = [[Jim Holloway]] (Art)[[The Battle for Twycross#note1| <sup>note</sup>]]<br>[[Jeff Laubenstein]] (Design)
| interiorart         = [[Dana Knutson]] (Art Director)
| illustrations       = [[Earl Geier]]
| publisher           = [[FASA]]
| productioncode      = 1653
| year                = 1990
| ISBN10              = 1555600743
| ISBN13              = 978-1555600747
| MSRP                = $8.00
| content             = 
| era                 = [[Clan Invasion era]]
| timeline            = [[3050]]
| series              = 
| precededby          = 
| followedby          = 
}}
==Description==
The Battle for Twycross marks the first victory of any of the [[Great Houses]] against the [[Clans]] during their [[Clan Invasion|invasion]] of the [[Inner Sphere]]. The battle lasted from 2 June to 10 September 3050, and resulted in an [[AFFC]] victory against [[Clan Jade Falcon]].

==From the back cover==
{{quote|''From beyond known space come the [[Clans]]... high-tech barbarians bring war and destruction to the [[Inner Sphere]]. The [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcons]] were one of the fiercest and most brutal of these Clans. Preying on the [[Federated Commonwealth]], they mercilessly slaughtered its defending forces.''

''The most successful of the Jade Falcons forces were the [[Falcon Guards]]. Led by [[Star Colonel]] [[Adler Malthus]], the guards amassed an incredible string of victories.''

''Their fate was to end up buried under tons of rock, entombed forever by [[Leftenant]] [[Kai Allard-Liao|Kai Allard]], giving and [''sic''] the Federated Commonwealth its first victory over the Clans.''

''This scenario pack recreates the battles for [[Twycross]], with 15 BattleTech scenarios and 1 [[BattleForce|Battleforce]][[The Battle for Twycross#note2|<sup>(sic)</sup>]] scenario, following the Falcon Guards from their greatest success to their final stand.''}}

==Contents==
* Introduction

* Report to the [[Primus of ComStar|Primus]]
** Coming Of The [[Clans]]
** [[Clan Invasion|Invasion]]
** [[Clan Jade Falcon|Jade Falcon]]s
** [[Twycross]] Campaign

* Characters
** [[Adler Malthus]]
** [[Bagdan]]
** [[Dan Kyle]]
** [[Lefar (Clan Jade Falcon)|Lefar]]
** [[Gell]]
** [[Lents]]

* [[Falcon Guards]] Unit Roster

* Scenarios
** The Beast is Loose
** Power Play
** The Terrible [[Elemental|Toad]]s
** Face the Fire
** Desperate Measures
** Distant Thunder
** The Harder They Fall
** The Defense of Camora
** Thunder Of The Gods
** The Last Hurrah
** Vengeance on the Plains
** Showdown

==Notes==
*<span id="note1">In the credits, [[Steve Venters]] is incorrectly listed as the cover artist</span>
* According to the prologue of the ''[[Falcon Guard (novel)|Falcon Guard]]'' novel by [[Robert Thurston]], Star Captain [[Joanna]] was together with Star Colonel Adler Malthus at the Great Gash and was one of the survivors, buried by rock as [[Kai Allard-Liao]] detonated the mines by overloading the reactor of his ''[[Hatchetman]]''. According to The Battle for Twycross scenario, the Great Gash was attacked by the [[Falcon Guard]] Trinary Alpha. Star Captain Joanna is not in the Trinary Alpha unit roster, in fact she is not even mentioned as a member of the whole Falcon Guards Cluster. This is probably a retcon of Robert Thurston because his book was published one year after the scenario.
*<span id="note2">The non-BattleTech scenario included, "Thunder of the Gods," is actually a [[BattleTroops]] scenario.</span>

==Foreign-Language Editions==
===German===
{{InfoBoxForLangProduct
| image               = Schlacht um Twycross, die.jpg
| name                = Die Schlacht um Twycross
| language            = German
| contribution        = [[Christian Jesch]] (Translation)<br />[[Reinhold H. Mai]] and<br />[[Michael Immig]] (Editorial Office)<br />[[Dietrich Limper]] (Composition)<br />Reinhold H. Mai and<br />[[MechForce Germany]] (Technical Consultancy)
| pages               = 52
| publisher           = [[Fantasy Productions]]
| year                = 1995
| ISBN10              = 389064922X
| ISBN13              = 978-3890649221
| MSRP                = 
}}

The German edition, in most parts faithful to the original version, was released by [[Fantasy Productions]] in 1995. The translation is credited to Christian Jesch. The German version is printed as DIN A4, a standard European paper size, which is a little larger then north american [[w:Paper size|Letter]].

====Alterations====
The German edition vastly matches the original one, with only slight variations:
* The BattleTroops scenario is left out.
* The initial outline gives no hierarchy of chapters and subsections, consequently the German outline contains a few additional bullets. The additional headings are:
** The chapter "Einführung" (''Introduction'') is followed by
*** "Verwendung der Szenarien" (''Use of Scenarios'')
*** "Zusatzregeln" (''Additional Rules'')
** The chapter "Unternehmen Twycross" (''Twycross Campaign'') is followed by
*** "Der Vorstoß auf Camora" (''Advance on Camora'')
*** "Das letzte Gefecht" (''The Last Stand'')
*** "Nachspiel" (''Aftermath'')
*** "Gegenangriff" (''Counterattack'')
*** "Entscheidung" (''Decision'')
*** "Sieg" (''Victory'')
* The original's mistake in the back cover text is corrected.

====Spelling and Names====
As with other German products prior to 1997 spelling and names (especially places and units) as well as most abbreviations were regularly adjusted. For instance the 'Mech unit ''[[Archer]]'' was renamed to ''Schütze'', the planet [[Götterdämmerung (system)|Gotterdammerung]] was respelled to ''Götterdämmerung'', the [[DCMS]] (Draconis Combine Mustered Soldiery) became ''VSDK'' (''Vereinigte Streitkräfte des Draconis Kombinats'') and so on.

==Covers==
<gallery>
Image:The Battle For Twycross.gif|Original 1990 cover. Art by Jim Holloway.
Image:Schlacht um Twycross, die.jpg|1995 German edition.
</gallery>


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