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This all-new BattleTech Total War Bundle gathers the core rulebooks for the BattleTech board game from Catalyst Game Labs, along with Mechwarrior: Destiny, the 2020 edition of the MechWarrior RPG. Destiny adapts the easy-to-learn Cue System (Shadowrun: Anarchy) for story-first MechWarrior adventures. The RPG integrates smoothly with the board game rules in this offer's comprehensive BattleTech corebooks, including Total Warfare and its three Operations expansions. Climb into your armored 'Mech and join battles across the vast interstellar empires of the 31st Century. We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this BattleTech Total War offer's pandemic-related charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$90. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all three complete rulebooks in our Starter Collection (retail value $45) as DRM-free ebooks (retail price $15 each), including the MechWarrior: Destiny corebook, BattleTech: Total Warfare, and BattleTech: TechManual.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with three more titles worth an additional $45 – the three Operations manuals (retail $15 each): Strategic Operations, Campaign Operations, and Tactical Operations: Advanced Rules.
My first impressions here are pretty good - Battletech has gone through a lot of iterations and it looks like they have settled down as a playable and well-presented system. This release of Mechwarrior is all-new; I can't actually remember much about the last version I saw, except that I thought it was excessively complicated, this again looks like a playable and well-designed system with reasonably straightforward rules - it scores for me by only needing a couple of six-sided dice, rather than the profusion of odd polyhedra some games require. Artwork is pretty good, and does not fall into sexual stereotyping. If you're looking for this sort of game I think this bundle is a pretty good choice.
