Unseen

The Unseen is a term used for some of the first BattleMech designs used for the original game. These designs, longtime favorites of BattleTech fans, were based on Mecha found in the Japanese anime series' Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Fang of the Sun Dougram.

The Unseen 'mechs, and their origins, are:

From Crusher Joe

Locust

From Macross

• VF-1 Valkryie

Stinger

Wasp

Valkyrie

Phoenix Hawk

Crusader

• Zentraedi "Regult" Tactical Battle Pod

Ostroc

Ostsol

Ostscout

• MBR-07-Mk II Spartan Main Battle Robot

Archer

• MBR-04-Mk VI Tomahawk Main Battle Robot

Warhammer

• MBR-04-Mk X Defender Anti-Aircraft Defense Robot

Rifleman

• SDR-04-Mk XII Phalanx Space Defense Robot

Longbow

• Zentraedi "Glaug" Officer's Battle Pod

Marauder

Marauder II

From Dougram

• Dougram

Shadow Hawk

• H8 Roundfacer

Griffin

• F35C Blizzard Gunner

Scorpion

• T10B Blockhead

Wolverine

• F4X Hasty

Thunderbolt

• F44A Crab Gunner

Goliath

• HT128 Bigfoot

Battlemaster

Legal difficulties prohibited FASA from displaying any more pictures depicting these mechs, although they were often freely mentioned in novels and books, and their rules remained legal. Thus, these 'Mechs remained unseen until the publication of Technical Readout: Project Phoenix, which presented "redesigns" of the mecha, to allow them to be used freely once again.