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==Issue 5 (The Tech Factory)== | ==Issue 5 (The Tech Factory)== | ||
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| The Tech Factory | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Magazine |
| Development | Gregg Dieckhaus |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Tech Factory |
| First published | 1993 |
| Content | |
The Tech Factory was a fan-made, unofficial BattleTech publication that ran for 13 issues. The first 3 issues were entitled The Mech Factory, but the publisher was contacted by Sam Lewis of FASA requiring a name change. In issue #4, the publisher claims that "all along we have been talking to FASA and had been told it was OK to print The Mech Factory." Sam Lewis explained by phone that when The Mech Factory transitioned from a Fanzine to a more proper nationally distributed magazine that they would need to become a generic science-fiction magazine and change names. The magazine was altered into the nearly identical The Tech Factory product with added coverage of Steel Legions and StarFleet Battles.
Known content
Contents
Issue 1 (The Mech Factory)
Light Blue Cover: B&W Illustration of 'Mech identified as the Warlord WLD-1P.
ARTICLES: Scenarios, Play Aids, The Tech Lab, QUADS-A close look at four legged Battlemechs. 12 New BattleMechs.
Issue 3 (The Mech Factory)
Green Cover: B&W Illustration of 'Mech identified as the Fullback A.
ARTICLES: "The Defense of Gateway Bridge, Arctic Force Revisited"
Issue 4 (The Tech Factory)
Yellow Cover: B&W Illustration of Pioneer Commando from Legions of Steel game.
ARTICLES: SFB & Legions of Steel content (10 pages); Ask FASA (1 page of Q&A from the support area of the GEnie online service): ammo dump, TSM, water jumping, quad turret, smoke, DFA, underwater; Vehicles: Nitro NTO-1B, Caddy CAD-1C, Hunter HNT-5VK, Sniper Attack Sub, Mtn. Lion Armored Car, Stormhawk VTOL, LRM Hover; Annihilator ANH-TD Mech; Pioneer PNR-2 Mech, Ryoken-W Omnimech, Sticky Situations (Scenario); Face-off at Numur (Underwater Scenario); Table of Vehicle statistics (3 pages); Review: Solaris: The Reaches; Review: Dune II Computer Game
Issue 5 (The Tech Factory)
Pink Cover: B&W Illustration of 'Mech identified as a JagerMech JM6-TD.
Issue 7 (The Tech Factory)
Blue Cover: B&W Illustration of an Unseen Locust featuring arms with hands. A detachable gun appears to be grasped in the fight arm.
Issue 12 (The Tech Factory)
"BattleTech and Starfleet Battles"
Orange Cover: B&W Illustration featuring two Clan Elementals. Issue price of $4.75.
ARTICLES: 7 New BattleMechs, Infantry & Elementals, "Pirates" (fiction), Dune Mini-Campaign (What-if Scenario), Review: First Strike, Review: BattleTech Collectible Card Game, Review: Starfleet Battles Campaign Designers Handbook.