BattleTechWiki:Project Infantry Weapons

Welcome to the Infantry Weapons WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving BattleTechWiki's coverage of Infantry Weapons. Feel free to join in by adding your name to the group, grabbing an article to complete or weighing in on the discussion.

Goals

• Catalog every Infantry or BattleArmor weapon present in BattleTech Universe.

Suggested Books

Main Page

• Total Warfare
• Tech Manual
• Tactical Operations
• Strategic Operations

/BTroops

• BattleTroops
• ClanTroops

/RPG 1e

• MechWarrior, First Edition
• Technical Readout: 3026
• BattleTechnology (apocryphal)

/RPG 2e

• MechWarrior, Second Edition,
• MechWarrior Companion
• Chaos March

/RPG 3e

• MechWarrior, Third Edition (or Classic BattleTech RPG)
• LosTech, The MechWarrior Equipment Guide
• Classic BattleTech (RPG) Companion
• Combat Equipment

/RPG 4e

• A Time of War
• A Time of War Companion

Guidelines

• Cameron developed the current format used for the RPG Weapons from the format used for BattleTech Weapons. The current concept for infantry weapons has that there are five sections:
  • Description : a basic description of the Infantry Portable or BattleMech mounted Weapon
  • Variants : Generic Weapons that lead a category can have variants, Recomend that weapons that have been given their own stats are linked to from this section.
  • References : links to the books or other source material used in any way to contribute to the article
  • Infobox : created with pre-established fields that need to be filled in with the relevant info
• One thing to consider is that the articles tend towards to an in-character (IC) role, though there are some obvious out-of-character (OOC) bits included (ex: BV). If there is a place for a stat in the infobox, do not use it in the description if you can avoid it.
• Link everything, at least once. If the term is Star League, link to it. If Free Worlds League is referenced in the text, link to it. Link to other unit types, like DropShips. If the same term is used a lot, especially in the same paragraph, feel free to link only once. But link, even if the linked article does not yet exist: it will someday!
• In the variants section, list the whole designation again. For example, if the Auto-Pistol is the primary article, in the variant section, start off each entry with the differenced name Auto-Pistol (Sternsnacht).

Format

• Main Page in format Class Name (Proper Name)as in Gauss Rifle, Light (King David) with transcluded text {{Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)}}.
• If there is both a Battle Armor Mounted and Infantry Portable Weapon, then Class Name (Proper Name)(Support Weapon) and Class Name (Proper Name)(Battle Armor)
• Transclusion Page (Description, Models, References & Bibliography) Template:Gauss Rifle, Light (King David) <onlyinclude> at top, </onlyinclude> at bottom.
• Each Role playing game has its own subpage as seen above e.g. Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)/RPG4e with transcluded text {{Gauss Rifle, Light (King David)}}.

Open tasks

• Discuss what categories, outside those limited to Infantry Weapons, should be attached to each infantry weapon article article. (See talk page.)
• Edit for mis-spellings, grammatical and formatting mistakes for current articles.
• Place the Project Infantry Weapon messagebox (see Tags below) on each Infantry Weapon discussion page.

Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Cameron, adding initial entries and cleanup of new entries
2. Doneve, copyeditor.
3. Neuling adding initial entries and make cross addition to infantry units TRO + Field Manual when possible.
4. BobTheZombie: Grammatical editing, adding finishing touches
5. LittleWolf: addition initial entries, minor editing
6. DragonoftheRust: Minor editing, cleaning up existing entries.

Templates

• Quick Create article for BattleTech Weapons
• InfoBoxWeapon template (Main Article - BattleTech Stats)
• Quick Create article for Infantry Weapons
• InfoBoxRPGWeapon template (each of the RPG Suppages)

Tags

• {{WikiProject Infantry Weapons}} (please see the template itself for usage documentation) displays this:

• [[:Image:BTW PMInfantry Weapons.jpg]] displays this:

[[Image:BTW PMInfantry Weapons.jpg]]

Categories

In order to make the BattleTechWiki as accessible as possible, proper categorization is paramount. Since this is Project Infantry Weapon, one of our tasks will be focusing on categorizing infantry weapons.

• Right Now — categorization that is meant be already underway:
  • Currently, the only 'required' categories are:
    • Category:Infantry Weapons, All Infantry Portable Weapons should be in this category upon article creation.
    • Category:Battle Armor Weapons, All Power Armor or Battle Armor mounted Infantry Weapons should be in this category upon article creation.

On the Back Burner

Categorization that is slated to begin when the previous task is, at a minimum, near-complete:

• • Categorizing Infantry Weapons into the more specific aspects (such as classes, weights, etc.) is currently on the back burner; but feel free to at populate the class (e.g., Category:Support Weapons) and Crew Requirements (e.g., Light Support Weapons, Portable Support Weapons, Semi-Portable Support Weapons, Heavy Support Weapons) categories if you have the time. Remember to further complicate things there is the Light Weapons for infantry bladed weapons, staves, bows, pistols and rifles and Medium Weapons for all three classes of Support Weapons as well as Category:BattleArmor Mounted Weapons. The Third type Heavy Weapons, is a re-issue of the class for Vehicle Mounted Weapons.

Resources

Related projects

• Project Infantry Units