Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex
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| Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex | |
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| Product information | |
| Type | Technical Readout |
| Development | Randall N. Bills Herb Beas Mike Miller Chris Wheeler (Assistant Development) |
| Primary writing | Herbert A. Beas II Randall N. Bills Chris Hartford David L. McCulloch Ben Rome Jason Schmetzer Christoffer Trossen Andreas Zuber |
| Pages | 224 |
| Cover Artwork | Doug Chaffee (Art) Ray Arrastia (Design) |
| Illustrations | Doug Chaffee |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | FanPro |
| Product code | 35022 |
| First published | 2006 |
| ISBN-10 | 193256456X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1932564563 |
| MSRP | $29.99 |
| Content | |
| Era | Jihad era |
| Timeline | 3070 |
| Series | Technical Readouts |
| Followed by | Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised Edition |
Description[edit]
Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex (TRO:Vehicle) is unique as it was the first TRO to focus primarily on civilian and/or Support Vehicles of various kinds. It is at the same time the first to include WiGE vehicles, with the construction rules found in TechManual (published in 2007). Police and security versions of IndustrialMechs are also prominent. It is written from the perspective of a senior IrTech executive collecting information of potential areas for production expansion.
TRO:Vehicle is primarily intended for use with MechWarrior roleplaying game. Through the variety of designs presented, it gives the BattleTech Universe more depth and credibility on the everyday side of life, beyond military and war. For most designs presented no record sheets have been published, although the data provided allows players to create these themselves.[1]
The 2006 TRO:Vehicle by then license holder FanPro was later updated and expanded with the 2013 PDF-only edition Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex Revised Edition by CGL.
From the back cover[edit]
| “ | MechWarriors receive all the glory; aerospace fighter pilots a close second; vehicles are considered the workhorses of any military; infantry are even given their day in the sun in the minds of the common citizen. But no battle could be waged, nor won, without the mammoth apparatus of support vehicles that feed the war machines of the Great Houses. From cargo trucks to tanker airships, airborne MASH to communication satellites, armored transport rails to coastal patrol boats, hauler exoskeletons to LoaderMechs, even hover and wheeled police cruisers or civilian vehicles onscripted [sic] into the military: the support vehicle is the true ackbone [sic] of any military machine.
Built using the construction rules found in TechManual™ nd [sic] Combat Equipment™, Classic BattleTech Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex™ provides a never-before-seen look at the support vehicles behind the militaries of every faction, as well as a slice of every day [sic] life in the BattleTech® universe. From tracked land-trains to police cruisers, luxury VTOLs to fix-wing [sic] passenger planes, satellites, super-heavy naval surface ships, IndustrialMechs and more: the gamut of the BattleTech universe, fully illustrated for the first time. |
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Table of Contents[edit]
- Introduction
- Wheeled Support Vehicles
- Prairie Schooner Land Train[2]
- Lesseps / Brunel Dump Trucks
- Saturnus V / Durandel-British
- Mao-Heng Charioteer
- Konx [sic] / Bailey Armored Cars
- Saurer-Bucher Fire Engine / Simca Ambulance
- Aston-Martin Fiver Series[3]
- Mótuö Chë Shang No. 2 / Flashbang ZZ10000
- Škoda / Iveco Burro Trucks[4]
- Bulldog / Pit Bull Medium Trucks
- Tracked Support Vehicles
- Galaport Ground Tug[5]
- Gienah-Durapaq Elite Series 3
- Luciano White Wolverine
- Hesiod Utility Vehicle / Saturn Harvester
- UL-Series Construction Vehicles
- Corx Mobile Tunnel Miner
- Cellco Ranger UPU-3000
- Croyle Cortez
- Donovan-Miter Magellan
- Sherpa Armored Truck
- RRV "Rock Rover" Half-Track
- Hover Support Vehicles
- BFFL "Buffalo"
- Routemaster Shuttle / Lewis Skimmer Bus
- Crimson Streak / CS535 Hover Cars
- Kressly Dillinger Police Vehicle
- Deusenberg VIP Luxury Hovercar
- Ina-du Swamp Skimmer
- Slipper LX-Series
- Bayamo Hoverbike / Freedom 900 Hover Jeep
- VTOL Support Vehicles
- St. Christopher Cargo Transport C1/C2
- SOAR / Peacekeeper SWAT Carrier
- Sky Eye News Helicopter
- Pegasus / Baronet Passenger VTOLs
- Cal-Boeing RTC-215M Swiftran
- Lexan Oceanic Series Luxury VTOL[6]
- Pion-Laurier Cascatelle / Lama-Deux
- WiGE Support Vehicles
- Coanda / Quicksilver Personal Sports Craft
- Cormorant Cargo Craft / Fulmar Patrol Craft
- Koi / Ryu Transport WIGEs
- Airship Support Vehicles
- Dawn Treader Cargo Airship
- Corvair Luxury Passenger Airliner
- Schatten Surveillance Airship
- Cloud Nine Carrier Airship
- EC-1 Eckener Tanker Airship
- Dixon Law Enforcement / Firetender Airships
- Meteos 9 Manned Dirigible
- Fixed Wing Support Vehicles
- Avanti Aerospace ACL-800 Airliner
- Federated-Boeing FB-335 Longhaul
- Jetta Coruna 4X / S 2772
- Mosquito IX Radar Plane
- C-790 Protector High-Speed Medevac
- Torrent Heavy Bomber
- Zanadu Air Bus
- CBM KC-9 "King Karnov"
- Satellite Support Vehicles
- Galax SEU-193D Starcomm
- D40 /SneakSat Communications Satellites
- SkyWard Model XII Warning Satellite
- Figyel II Science Satellite
- PowerSat
- Blankenburg Cassion Payload Satellite
- Rail Support Vehicles
- Adelante Passenger/Cargo Train
- St. Bernard Express
- Moray Transfer Monorail
- Pressurized Train
- RML-447C Nolan/RMC-3050 LevCar
- Naval (Surface) Support Vehicles
- Ahab Whaler
- Whitestreak Speedboat / Whitestreak Jetski
- Atlantia-Series Luxury Yacht
- Silverfin / Silverback Coastal Cutters
- Kaleen Bay Tanker / Anastaka Maro Freighter [sic]
- Meabh Heavy Cruiser
- Luftenberg Supercarrier
- Naval (Submarine) Support Vehicles
- JN-002 Jonah Submarine
- Baleena Passenger Submarine
- Seahorse / Verne Cargo Subs
- Triton Missile Submarine
- Lysander Carrier Submarine
- Exoskeletons
- CEX-205 "Groundhog" Exoskeleton
- Gladiator Exoskeleton
- Ailette Zero-G Engineering Exoskeleton
- GM Tunnel Rat Mining Exoskeleton
- PEX-2B Gorilla / PEX-2F Salrilla
- HeavyHauler / P-5000 PowerLoader
- Resgate / Krise PA(L) Exoskeleton
- Smoothdavid II / Smoothgoliath II
- IndustrialMechs
- HVR-99 "Harvester" AgroMech
- SC-V-1 "Vampyr" ScavengerMech
- KIC-3 Harvester Ant
- SC Powerman LoaderMech / SC Buster HaulerMech
- ED-X Crosscut LoggerMech
- ATAE-70 "Uni" CargoMech
- RA-4 CattleMaster (Hunter/Herder)
- RCL-4 Dig Lord
- CON-7 "Carbine" ConstructionMech
- MR-8C Marco
- GM-3A Pompier FireMech
- CPK-6 "Copper" SecurityMech
Notes[edit]
- The title comprises descriptions of at least 128 units in total, dating from Age of War era and later. All presented units were previously unpublished. It contains:
- 40 Support Vehicles
- 11 VTOLs
- 6 WiGEs
- 8 Airships,
- 9 Conventional Aircraft
- 7 Satellite vehicles
- 6 Rail vehicles
- 16 Naval Vessels
- 12 Exoskeletons
- 13 IndustrialMechs
- The in-character description of the title's contents is given by Lucy Tsagarides, Chief Operating Officer, Irian Media Interstellar (Charybdis Publishing) (1 December, 3070). Every section is introduced by another piece of in-universe information (a promotional flyer, a publication etc.).
- Trademarked Classic BattleTech Technical Readout: Vehicle Annex.
References[edit]
- ↑ A notable exception is the sourcebook Historical: Operation Klondike, which utilizes support vehicles. Record sheets for these variants have been published in the sourcebook's companion record sheet book, Record Sheets: Operation Klondike
- ↑ The entry describes the Prairie Schooner tractor as well as the attachable modules
- ↑ The entry describes the Fiver (Roadster) as well as the Fiver (Traveler)
- ↑ The entry describes the Burro Heavy Support Truck as well as the Burro II Super Heavy Cargo Truck
- ↑ The entry describes the Galaport Ground Tug as well as the Galaport Ground Tug Trailer
- ↑ The entry describes the Oceanic Series VI as well as the Oceanic Series II
See also[edit]
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