MechWarrior

In BattleTech, MechWarrior can refer to:

In-universe

• A BattleMech pilot

Games

• The MechWarrior: Dark Age and later MechWarrior: Age of Destruction (MWDA/MWAoD) boardgame and its setting, a miniatures-based collectible game by WizKids using the Clix system and rules. A distinct boardgame from Classic BattleTech, it was initially set some 60 years ahead of the classic BattleTech universe timeline and had its own novel line (see below). It was discontinued as a separate game, and its setting, timeline and novels were since overtaken by and incorporated into the classic BattleTech game line.

• The MechWarrior Role Playing Game (RPG) series:
  • MechWarrior, First Edition by FASA
  • MechWarrior, Second Edition by FASA
  • MechWarrior, Third Edition by FanPro; reprinted by CGL in 2007 as Classic BattleTech RPG with new name and cover art to avoid confusion with the then-new MechWarrior: Dark Age brand (see below)
  • A Time of War and A Time of War Companion by CGL, this RPG system is informally also known as "MechWarrior, Fourth Edition"

• The MechWarrior series of video games:
  • MechWarrior
  • MechWarrior (SNES), a heavily altered SNES port of the aforementioned MechWarrio PC game
  • MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat & Ghost Bear's Legacy expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries (a distinct title from the aforementioned MechWarrior 2, but using the same game engine)
  • MechWarrior 3050, a SNES console game featuring near-identical cover graphics to MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat despite being a totally different game
  • MechWarrior 3 & Pirate's Moon expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 4: Vengeance & Black Knight expansion pack
  • MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries
  • MechWarrior Online, which was initially announced as MechWarrior (a "reboot" of the series) and back then also informally known as MechWarrior 5

Novels

• The MechWarrior series, six unrelated ROC novels set in the classic BattleTech setting and era
• The summary title of a German omnibus edition of the first three novels in the aforementioned MechWarrior series by ROC
• The MechWarrior: Dark Age novel series in the eponymous MechWarrior: Dark Age setting (see above)