| Sajiro | 07 Apr 2013 8:15 a.m. PST |
I just picked up both of these off of RPGNow. I've flipped through them some, pretty standard books like the rest in the series. These will let you create campaigns for B-tech in the Mechwarrior Clix age. |
| Wellspring | 08 Apr 2013 6:23 p.m. PST |
You mean 3145… Also, the goal is to retcon the "clix era" into something more reminiscent of BattleTech. The goal is to keep the WizKids books canon, but vastly improve the setting (which had been received poorly by fans). |
| ordinarybass | 09 Apr 2013 6:32 a.m. PST |
Are these available in print or only as PDF? I was impressed with TRO 3085 which introduced a few of the clix mechs into the general cannon. However I don't have much interst in PDF's when it comes to battletech. |
| Kealios | 09 Apr 2013 10:04 a.m. PST |
Yea, Ive got dozens upon dozens of dead tree versions of Battletech books on my shelf. No reason to stop now :) |
| Wellspring | 15 Apr 2013 11:05 a.m. PST |
PDF, and yes, this is pretty impressive. The TRO includes record sheets, so even the most strict canonistas have to permit these in era-appropriate games. The TRO is one of a series for 3145-- a print version will come… eventually. This one is mercs and other minor factions. BattleTech has really improved in the past few years. I'd abandoned the setting altogether for a long time, but it's experienced a renaissance under CGL. |
| Nerroth | 02 May 2013 9:45 p.m. PST |
There are preview pics up for the next two TRO:3145 PDF volumes, Liao(-Centrella) and Kurita. Overall, there will be 8 TRO:3145 pdfs; the currently-available Merc file, one for each of the five Great Houses, another for the Clans, and one last file covering the Republic of the Sphere. It seems that the print edition of TRO:3145 will have a sub-set of units from all 8 pdfs, but the exact composition involved hasn't been listed as of yet. |
| Nerroth | 17 May 2013 2:20 p.m. PST |
The next PDF volume in the series, TRO:3145 Capellan Confederation, is now out. |
| Nerroth | 25 May 2013 9:44 p.m. PST |
Perhaps sooner than expected, TRO:3145 Draconis Combine (which includes certain units from Clan Nova Cat) is out, too. Next up should be the Federated Suns, followed (in theory) by the Free Worlds League, the Lyran Commonwealth, the Clans, and finally the Republic of the Sphere itself. |
| Nerroth | 03 Jun 2013 4:24 p.m. PST |
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| SouthernPhantom | 17 Jul 2013 1:54 p.m. PST |
The far-future stuff does absolutely NOTHING for me. The Jihad was positively awesome; the setting should have thrown out the WizKids clicky garbage unless specifically noted. Massive time-jumps play havoc with continuity. Jumping from ~3085 to 3145 leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as does the rumored jump from 3145 to 3250. |
| MrAverage | 17 Jul 2013 6:07 p.m. PST |
Have to agree with SouthernPhantom on this one. I thought he Jihad was gutsy, and harkened back to the chaotic and totally-nuts All Against All kind of Succession Wars scenarios from early on. But shoehorning the Dark Age stuff into it has been a bummer for me. "Devlin Stone arrived and he was Jesus Christ, and then it was eighty years later." Uh, no. It was a bad idea they're too committed to. Retconning it out of the mix would have been the MUCH better move. |
| Nerroth | 29 Jul 2013 8:26 a.m. PST |
I forgot to note that TRO:3145 FWL is now available. The Lyran and Clan files remain to be uploaded, and we still have to see how the print volume of TRO:3145 will turn out. (According to a hint dropped by Randall Bills elsewhere, it seems to be at a fairly advanced stage of development at this point. Fingers crossed!) |
| Nerroth | 29 Jul 2013 1:40 p.m. PST |
Make that one less faction file to wait for, as TRO:3145 LC is up on the BattleShop and on DriveThruRPG. In this case, the LCAF is presented with Clan Wolf-in-Exile as their "associated realm". |
| Nerroth | 31 Jul 2013 8:42 a.m. PST |
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| Nerroth | 31 Jul 2013 2:28 p.m. PST |
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| Nerroth | 01 Aug 2013 2:16 p.m. PST |
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| Nerroth | 12 Aug 2013 8:04 a.m. PST |
And TRO:3145 The Clans is now out. All that remains is for the print edition to surface later this week at GenCon, in which the final piece of the IS 3145 puzzle (the Republic of the Sphere) to be set in place. |
| Nerroth | 22 Sep 2013 7:59 a.m. PST |
Looks like we might be getting a PDF release for TRO: 3145 Republic of the Sphere after all. Plus there should be a set of "Old is the New New" Record Sheets included in an upcoming unabridged RS file supporting the TRO:3145 print volume. |
| Nerroth | 12 Oct 2013 8:50 a.m. PST |
And so the TRO:3145 set is complete. Technical Readout: 3145 Republic of the Sphere is up, as are Record Sheets: 3145 Unabridged and Record Sheets: 3145 New Tech, New Upgrades. (I posted the DriveThruRPG links, but these files are also available on the BattleShop.) If you have each of the faction-specific TRO:3145 PDFs, you should have no need to get the RS:3145U file, unless you wanted to have all of the Record Sheets compiled into a single volume. RS:3145NTNU includes a range of older units which have been given Dark Age-era refits and rebuilds, based on the equivalent section in the TRO:3145 print edition. With all of these tools in place, all that remains is for the Dark Age books to be published that further cover the conflicts these units will be featured in: the PDF-only Era Digest: Dark Age, the print and PDF of Historical: Wars of the Republic Era, and the culmination of current events courtesy of the looming ilClan sourcebook. |
| SouthernPhantom | 19 Oct 2013 10:37 a.m. PST |
Yeah MrAverage, I tend to read Devlin Stone as being a neo-Blakist version of the Antichrist, more than the Second Coming. The Republic is portrayed as a bit of a Mary Sue, but, IMO, is worse than just about any other faction (CapCon included) bar the RWR. There's just something about those new Not-A-Celestial-Series 'mechs that bothers me… |
gives you the gift of being OK with that. 
