MechWarrior 5 2009 Debut Gameplay Trailer

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Originally Posted by Power5

And why would you outfit LRMs if you will mostly be doing battle inside their useful advantage range? Why not get some MRM or SRM which do much more damage per and usually weigh less than the LRM? Best thing of LRMs is they lock on, so you can lock on at 1000m, fire, and then run for cover. You can just as easily unleash a rack of SRMs and do twice as much damage as the rack of LRMs when in melee range.

Not sure as to what the crit you are talking about is. I never played the board games.

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MRMs weren't around in 3015.

You make use with what you have it you have it as a weapon. Like I said it is not meant for that but if need be they come in handy.

From a tactical stand point it doesn't hurt to have at least one long range weapon on hand.

you are assuming that for what ever reason you ahve the choice to equip SRMs or what not.

You have to look @ this in the right context.

3015 is during the 4th Succession War. Technology is on the verge of being non existent along the front lines of the Draconis/Davion front. Salvage was for the most part the only way units could equip/be supplied.

If you can give me a book to read, if there is a place to find it, that would be great. Which ever book gives the most information would be best, as I will probably only read 1. I only have the games as a reference, never read one of the books, so I don't know the universe that well.

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Originally Posted by trinibwoy

Mechwarrior, X-com and Master of Orion were my initiation to PC gaming. Good to see the franchise is still alive. Does look very prettied up and dumbed down though.

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Often imitated, but never repeated....
X-COM is probably one of my favorite games of ALL time- but Mechwarrior RAWKS! How many hours and dozens of cases of liquid refreshment have we wasted roaring the mechs in PvP battles - back when we were still uisng COAX and had to modify our AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files to get network support! Somewhere in there WIndows 95 came along and the Mechwarrior series took a serious change for the.....<better I guess>

Considering that today - even the most mainstream of gamer-quality video cards will have more raw processing power than the entire computer (or like my first 50) that I had when playing Mechwarrior - i totally expect some serious IN YOUR FACE effects

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Originally Posted by Power5

If you can give me a book to read, if there is a place to find it, that would be great. Which ever book gives the most information would be best, as I will probably only read 1. I only have the games as a reference, never read one of the books, so I don't know the universe that well.

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I would go for the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy (3 books)

If you don't read novel type books then I would just avoid.

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Originally Posted by Power5

If you can give me a book to read, if there is a place to find it, that would be great. Which ever book gives the most information would be best, as I will probably only read 1. I only have the games as a reference, never read one of the books, so I don't know the universe that well.

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As mentioned a few times in the thread. Blood of Kerensky trilogy is a good place to start.

1 LethaLethal Heritage
2 BloodBlood Legacy
3 Lost Lost Destiny

There are books that predate these three. The first book for this trilogy starts in 3049 I believe. Introduces many characters and their relationships to the story line. It also mentions many of the older characters (parents etc) they are talked bout in previous novels.

The novels predating the Blood of Kerensky Trilogy:

Decision at Thunder Rift
The Sword and the Dagger
Mercenary's Star
The Price of Glory
Warrior: En Garde*
Warrior: Riposte*
Wolves on the Border
Warrior: Coupé*
Heir to the Dragon

*= Trilogy

Here is a in depth listing of all the novels centered around the Battletech Universe.

Book listing

So happy to see a mech game upcoming. :up:

Amazing how many authors have written battle tech books and how they don't appear to contradict each other or tell the story of the same events.

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Originally Posted by Power5

Amazing how many authors have written battle tech books and how they don't appear to contradict each other or tell the story of the same events.

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Same events, and or reflect other events on other books and also there are times when characters from one book, from a different author will make an appearance in another novel.

Very well integrated time line on all parts. I can't say I don't like any of the authors though I am a fan of Stackpole's writing over others.