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| Campaign Operations | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Rulebook |
| Primary writing | Ray Arrastia Randall N. Bills Brian Bunch Johannes Heidler Joshua K. Franklin Mike Miller Ben H. Rome Elliotte Want |
| Pages | 194 |
| Cover Artwork | Marco Mazzoni |
| Illustrations | Jeff Porter David Allen Kerber Mark Hayden |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Catalyst Game Labs |
| Product code | CAT35007 |
| First published | July 2, 2016 (PDF) September 23rd, 2016 (Printed) |
| Content | |
| Era | Age of War to Dark Age |
| Timeline | Total Warfare |
| Series | Core Rulebooks |
| Preceded by | Interstellar Operations |
Description[edit]
Campaign Operations is the last of a series of core rulebooks written for BattleTech.
The book is designed to allow players run their own BattleTech military campaigns for either Mercenary or regular Army units of the Houses the Inner Sphere and the Clans. The book provides advanced rules for maintaining and running a military combat unit and campaign creation. The book is compatible with various game types which include Alpha Strike, Total Warfare, Chaos Campaign and A Time of War.
Campaign Operations offers rules that can be used for any type of campaign a player or group wishes to include. Gives the players tools allowing for creating a force, creating personas that would be command the unit, and more.
From the back cover[edit]
Forces Across the Stars!
| “ | Forge your forces and prepare to fight any battle across the Inner Sphere! Campaign Operations completes the core rulebook series begun in Total Warfare. While previous rulebooks detailed game play at various levels—from a single MechWarrior, to a BattleMech company, to entire armies—this final volume focuses on the forces a player will build and run through any level of play.
Campaign Operations contains rules for creating and running forces, whether a down-on-their-luck mercenary battalion, or a fully-supplied House regiment. The volume also contains complete rules for devising solar systems, allowing players to recreate existing star systems or craft all-new worlds to challenge each other. The final sections of the book bring several options to the table for campaign play. Building off of previous sections in Total Warfare and Strategic Operations, the Narrative Campaign, Map-Based Campaign and Chaos Campaign rules allow players to build exciting, fun campaigns of almost any stripe for their newly-minted forces! |
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Contents[edit]
INTRODUCTION
FORCE CREATION
- STAGE 1: DEFINE THE FORCE
- STAGE 2: SELECT FORCE SIZE
- STAGE 3: PROCURE EQUIPMENT AND HIRE PERSONNEL
- STAGE 4: DETERMINE OPERATING EXPENSES
- OPTIONAL CONSTRUCTION RULES
FORCE OPERATIONS
- REPUTATION
- HIRING AND CAMPAIGNS
- ADDITIONAL RULES
FORMATION BUILDING
- FORMATION BUILDING BASICS
- UNIT ROLE
- LANCES, STARS AND LEVEL IIS
- FORMATIONS
- COMPANIES, BINARIES AND BEYOND
- SPECIAL PILOT ABILITIES
- SPECIAL COMMAND ABILITIES
INNER SPHERE AT WAR CONVERSIONS
SOLAR SYSTEM GENERATION
- COLONY CREATION
NARRATIVE CAMPAIGNS
- CAMPAIGN BACKGROUND
- WEBBING THE CAMPAIGN
- SCENARIO HOOKS
- MISSION WRAP UP
- NARRATIVE AND MAP-BASED CAMPAIGNS
- FINAL TIPS & TRICKS
MAP CAMPAIGNS
- CAMPAIGN SCALE
- RULES COMPLEXITY
- CAMPAIGN SETUP
- PLAYING/RUNNING THE CAMPAIGN
- WINNING THE CAMPAIGN
- OPTIONAL RULES
CUSTOM CHAOS CAMPAIGN CREATION
- HOW TO USE THE CHAOS CAMPAIGN RULESET
- CUSTOM CHAOS: BUILDING YOUR OWN CAMPAIGN
- OPTIONS
- BUILDING A TRACK
RECORD SHEETS & TABLES
Notes[edit]
Initially when conceived, the contents of this book was supposed to have been part of previous Interstellar Operations rulebook, but this was considered to be too large and expensive of a book when combined. Thus Campaign Operations became the second volume of the Interstellar Operations.
Gallery[edit]
1st printing cover
2nd printing cover
3rd printing cover
