BattleTech Simulator

Introduction

by William H. Keith, jr.

FASA, an Earth-based publisher of combat simulations, has produced a wide variety of battle simulators designed to sharpen MechWarriors' tactics and combat skills, including BattleTech, MechWarrior, CityTech, AeroTech, and BattleForce. BattleTechnology Magazine will include a special section called BATTLETECH SIMULATOR in each issue. This section will allow the readers to take various situations, encounters, and battles discussed in that issue's columns and feature articles and recreate them as combat scenarios.

These scenarios--referred to as game modules--are presented in the same format as the modules in such popular FASA publications as Tales of the Black Widow Company and Gray Death Legion.

Also included, from time to time, will be new rules, or rules variants to various FASA simulations, including BattleTech, MechWarrior, and the Mercenary's Handbook. These will be coded with the issue number (the first issue is 0101, the second 0102, and so on throughout the year), plus a letter which will identify that rule or variant in future magazine issues.

In this issue, 0101-A (see: Repair Bay) is a rules variant for replacing BattleMech engines in combat which can be used with MechWarrior or BattleTech, while 0101 -8 (see: following pages) modifies the original character generation rules for MechWarrior.

In all cases, these new rules or variants are strictly optional, and game referees should keep in mind that some of these rules could upset the balance of play in BattleTech campaigns or other FASA games.

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