•    Standing from seven to sixteen meters tall, and weighing from twenty to one hundred tons
    •    Powered by an armored and shielded fusion reactor
  
 •    Skeleton of honeycombed, foamed aluminum core wrapped with
stressed silicon carbide monofilament and sheathed by a rigid,
titanium-steel shell
    •    Locomotion generated via bundles of polyacetylene-fiber myomer muscles
  
 •    Protected by aligned-crystal steel over a layer of boron nitride
impregnated with diamond monofilaments Mounting a swath of powerful
weapons from charged particle beams to lasers, missiles to rapid-fire
autocannons
    •    All at the command of the noble elite, the MechWarriors
The
modern BattleMech is the end result of more than three thousand years
of battlefield technology development. Combining awesome destructive
power and unparalleled maneuverability, the BattleMech is perhaps the
most complex machine ever produced. The undisputed master of
thirty-first century warfare, the BattleMech seems destined to reign
supreme for centuries to come.
—Excerpts from a promotional pamphlet originally distributed by Defiance Industries of Hesperus, Lyran Commonwealth, 3007
Using the most up-to-date rules text, the BattleMech Manual
has been designed from the ground up to cater to the BattleTech player
wanting to engage in an all-’Mech battle. Includes a variety of optional
rules, terrain and more.

Welcome to the most table-usage-friendly BattleTech rulebook ever published!