Kill Zone
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| Kill Zone | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Anthology |
| Development | Philip A. Lee (editor) |
| Pages | 280 (POD) |
| Cover Artwork | Michael Komarck (art) Matt Heerdt and David Kerber (design) |
| Interior Artwork | Marco Mazzoni |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Catalyst Game Labs |
| First published | 21 July 2019 |
| ISBN-10 | 1-942-48788-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-942487-88-3 |
| MSRP | $13.95 (POD) $ 4.99 (EPUB) |
| Content | |
| Era | Various |
| Preceded by | Front Lines |
| Followed by | Gray Markets |
Kill Zone (subtitle: BattleCorps Anthology, Vol. 7) contains nine short stories (two of them connected) that had previously been published online on BattleCorps throughout 2010, plus one previously unpublished, new story (Arms of the Destroyer). The EPUB format and the POD format were both released on 21 July 2019.
Kill Zone is listed as both the seventh "BattleCorps" and the eighth "BattleTech" anthology (see notes) though the latter count omits the 1988 Shrapnel Anthology and the BattleTech: 25 Years of Art & Fiction book.
Contents[edit]
- Foreword, by Philip A. Lee
- Operation Rat: Tomorrow's Shine by Adam Sherwood
- Bad Water by Kevin Killiany
- The Loyal Son by Blaine Lee Pardoe
- Reap What You Sow by Craig A. Reed, Jr.
- Arms of the Destroyer by Travis Heermann
- Operation Klondike: To Lead and Serve by Jason Schmetzer
- Feather versus Mountain / Rise and Shine (connected story in two parts) by Stephan A. Frabartolo
- Operation Scythe: Those Who Stand High by Jason Hansa
- Operation Scythe: Lyran Fire by Lance Scarinci
From the Back Cover[edit]
| “ | REDEMPTION. RESISTANCE. RESOLVE.
A young Davion MechWarrior seeks to repay a debt incurred by the misfortunes of the Fourth Succession War. A tightly-knit farming community bands together to repel vicious pirates or risk losing their livelihoods...and their lives. A Kurita MechWarrior given a final chance to serve the Dragon stands alone against renegade mercenaries. And the survivors of a crash-landed Steiner command must hold the line against ravenous Word of Blake forces to protect the Allied Coalition's quest to wrest Terra from the Blakists' unyielding grip. |
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Notes[edit]
- The front page cover image was reused from the original 2008 cover of the Tactical Operations rulebook. The scene seems to be the final stage of the battle narrated at the end of the story Those Who Stand High.
- This 2019 continuation of the BattleCorps anthology series is notable insofar as both the preceding BattleCorps anthology and the final BattleCorps story had been published in 2016; the site went offline a few months later.