Tales of the Black Widow Company

Description

Tales of the Black Widow Company is a scenario book that focuses on the legendary Natasha Kerensky and her Black Widow Company. It details the unit's pilots and 'Mechs during the period that their parent unit, Wolf's Dragoons, were in the service of the Draconis Combine (3023 to 3028). A separate scenario is set in 3022, when the Dragoons were in service of the Lyran Commonwealth. The book gives a brief history of Wolf's Dragoons, and their leader Jaime Wolf, before going on to detail the history of the Black Widow Company itself. It then gives information of all twelve pilots in the company and their 'Mechs, including details of mechanical foibles and failures that the 'Mechs suffer from.

After the information on the unit, the book presents eleven stand-alone scenarios and a short four-mission campaign to challenge the Black Widow Company. Each scenario has a short piece of fiction to set the scene before going on to detail the set-up for the mission, with information on which members of the Black Widow Company are involved in the battle and how they are deployed, details of the opposing units and their deployment, victory and loss conditions for each side as well as any special rules for the scenario.

From the back cover

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This supplement is packed with descriptions of one of BattleTech's most elite fighting companies: The Black Widow Company of Wolf's Dragoons. Selling their services to the highest bidder, this mercenary unit is well known throughout the Successor States. Included is a history of the Black Widow Company and her commander, Natasha Kerensky, details of the units that make up the company and the MechWarriors who do the fighting, plus 15 scenarios of actual engagements fought by the Black Widow.

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Contents

• Introduction
  • How To Use The Scenarios Presented

• Wolf's Dragoons
  • Brief Regimental History
  • Jaime Wolf, Brief Personal History
  • Kerensky's Black Widows: Brief History
    • Command Lance
      • Captain Kerensky
      • MechWarrior Maclaren
      • MechWarrior Sheridan
      • MechWarrior Hayes
    • Fire Lance
      • Lieutenant Ikeda
      • MechWarrior Delius
      • MechWarrior Koniev
      • MechWarrior Ward
    • Recon Lance
      • Lieutenant Clavell
      • MechWarrior Nichols
      • MechWarrior Fraser
      • MechWarrior Jahan

• Lady Sings The Blues
• Queen's Gambit
• Scavenger Hunt
• Spider Trap
• The Lady And The Tiger
• Leave No Survivors
• Dawn Patrol
• Fog Of War
• The Bounty Hunter
• Lady's Man
• Ghost Unit

• The Battle For Hoff
  • Scenario I
  • Scenario II
  • Scenario III
  • Scenario IV